suspected

/sə-ˈspekt/

Middle English, from Latin suspectare, frequentative of suspicere to look up at, regard with awe, suspect, from sub-, sus- up, secretly + specere to look at

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