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{
"term": "suspect",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "suspect",
"heSheIt": "suspects"
},
"pastSimple": "suspected",
"pastParticiple": "suspected",
"ingForm": "suspecting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to have an idea that something is probably true or likely to happen, especially something bad, but without having definite proof",
"sensetop": "suspect somethingsuspect (that)…it is suspected that…suspect somebody/something to be/have something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "As I had suspected all along, he was not a real policeman."
},
{
"text": "If you suspect a gas leak, do not strike a match or even turn on an electric light.",
"contextForm": "suspect something"
},
{
"text": "Suspecting nothing, he walked right into the trap."
},
{
"text": "I didn’t want the neighbours suspecting anything."
},
{
"text": "I **began to suspect** (that) they were trying to get rid of me.",
"contextForm": "suspect (that)…"
},
{
"text": "I **strongly suspect** (that) this whole story is fictional."
},
{
"text": "She had no **reason to suspect **(that) Sylvia had not been telling the truth."
},
{
"text": "I suspect (that) she might be lying."
},
{
"text": "It was suspected that the drugs had been brought into the country by boat.",
"contextForm": "it is suspected that…"
},
{
"text": "She suspected him to be an impostor.",
"contextForm": "suspect somebody/something to be/have something"
},
{
"text": "He immediately suspected the worst."
},
{
"text": "It was widely suspected that the cadets had been acting on orders."
},
{
"text": "I would suspect that they're running short of money by now."
},
{
"text": "It was just as she had suspected: the letters had been stolen."
}
],
"topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["strongly", "rather", "rightly"],
"verb + suspect": ["begin to", "have reason to", "have reasons to"],
"phrases": ["be widely suspected"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to have an idea that somebody is guilty of something, without having definite proof",
"sensetop": "suspect somebody/something of somethingsuspect somebody/something of doing somethingsuspect somebody/something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He resigned after being suspected of theft.",
"contextForm": "suspect somebody/something of something"
},
{
"text": "He is not **suspected of** any **involvement** in the recent attacks."
},
{
"text": "He was wrongly **suspected of the crime**."
},
{
"text": "They arrested four men suspected of links to an extremist group."
},
{
"text": "I suspected her of damaging the equipment.",
"contextForm": "suspect somebody/something of doing something"
},
{
"text": "The drug is suspected of causing over 200 deaths."
},
{
"text": "Whom do the police suspect?",
"contextForm": "suspect somebody/something"
}
],
"topics": ["Crime and punishment"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["rightly", "wrongly"],
"preposition": ["of"],
"phrases": [
"have grounds for suspecting somebody/something",
"have grounds to suspect somebody/something",
"have reason to suspect somebody/something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to feel that something is not completely right, legal or honest, without having any proof; to not trust something",
"sensetop": "suspect something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I suspected her motives in offering to help."
},
{
"text": "He dealt through a broker whose honesty he had no reason to suspect."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈspekt/",
"audio": "su/suspect/suspect__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈspekts/",
"audio": "su/suspect/suspects__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈspektɪd/",
"audio": "su/suspect/suspected__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈspektɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/suspect/suspecting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈspekt/",
"audio": "su/suspect/suspect__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈspekts/",
"audio": "su/suspect/suspects__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈspektɪd/",
"audio": "su/suspect/suspected__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈspektɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/suspect/suspecting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (originally as an adjective): from Latin suspectus ‘mistrusted’, past participle of suspicere, from sub- ‘from below’ + specere ‘to look’."
}