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Verb suspect has 3 senses
- suspect, surmise - imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"
--1 is one way to guess, venture, pretend, hazard
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- distrust, mistrust, suspect - regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in
--2 is one way to disbelieve, discredit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- suspect - hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"
--3 is one way to think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess
Sample sentence:
They suspect him to write the letter
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