suspect

/ˈsə-ˌspekt/

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin suspectus, from past participle of suspicere

adjective

  1. regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion : suspected

  2. doubtful, questionable

investigates suspect employees

noun

  1. one that is suspected; especially : a person suspected of a crime

verb

  1. to imagine (one) to be guilty or culpable on slight evidence or without proof

  2. to have doubts of : distrust

  3. to imagine to exist or be true, likely, or probable

suspect him of giving false information