Definition of suspect

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Suspect (a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

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Suspect :: Suspect (v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story..
Scratchback :: Scratchback (n.) A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons..
Suspectful :: Suspecter (n.) One who suspects.
Unsuspicion :: Unsuspicion (n.) The quality or state of being unsuspecting.
Suspicious :: Suspicion (v. t.) To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt.
Suspect :: Suspect (v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
Surmiser :: Surmise (v. t.) To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess..
Fear :: Fear (n.) To suspect; to doubt.
Simple-minded :: Simple-minded (a.) Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity.
Suspectiousness :: Suspection (n.) Suspicion.
Distrust :: Distrust (n.) State of being suspected; loss of trust.
Suspected :: Suspect (a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime..
Suspectless :: Suspectless (a.) Not suspecting; having no suspicion.
Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed..
Suspect :: Suspecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suspec.
Petalism :: Petalism (n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.
Corsned :: Corsned (n.) The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt..
Pigeon :: Pigeon (n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.
Gila Monster :: Gila monster () A large tuberculated lizard (Heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth..
Suspicious :: Suspicious (a.) Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.
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