suspecting
怀疑,涉嫌,猜测,猜疑
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Definitions
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- : to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- : to doubt or mistrust: I suspect his motives.
- : to believe to be the case or to be likely or probable; surmise: I suspect his knowledge did not amount to much.
- : to have some hint or foreknowledge of: I think she suspected the surprise.
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- : to believe something, especially something evil or wrong, to be the case; have suspicion.
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- : a person who is suspected, especially one suspected of a crime, offense, or the like.
- : an animal or thing that is suspected to be the cause of something bad: Investigators focused on faulty wiring as a suspect in the house fire.The cause of the disease was not confirmed, but the suspect was an insect.
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- : suspected; open to or under suspicion.
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By the logic of this book, a lot of music made without “real” instruments — a lot of the music in the world right now, and some of the best — may start to look suspect.
The suspect “was actually caught in the act,” prosecutor Arielle Hinton said this week during Cline’s first court hearing in the case in Montgomery County District Court.
On one occasion, the father reported a credit card stolen and said he suspected his son had taken it, police said.
Parker Pearson suspects other, still-undiscovered stone circles in western Wales contributed to the construction of Stonehenge and Bluestonehenge.
After the shooting, a suspect was seen leaving the area in a silver SUV, possibly a Nissan Rogue.
A fourth suspect, a 26-year-old woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, remains at large.
The third suspect, an 18-year-old named Hamyd Mourad, who turned himself in, is part of the same extended family.
The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.
I suspect [Teresa] will get money sent in to her, so she can shop at the commissary.
In such beer polls, I suspect a lot of voters would pick Huckabee.
About this time the famous Philippine painter, Juan Luna (vide p. 195), was released after six monthsʼ imprisonment as a suspect.
In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
I suspect, from the evident care taken of it, that its product is considerably relied on for food.
You see it for yourself, no Englishman ever shall suspect me, when we shall converse, of being other than a Briton.
Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.