- suspected - believed likely; "a suspected thief"; "a suspected infection"
Antonyms: unsuspected, unexpected, unknown
- 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:Derived form: noun suspicion1
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:Derived forms: noun suspect1, noun suspicion2
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:Derived forms: noun suspect2, noun suspect1, noun suspicion3
They suspect him to write the letter