suspected

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sus·pect

(sə-spĕkt′)

v. sus·pect·ed, sus·pect·ing, sus·pects

v.tr.

1. To consider (something) to be true or probable on little or no evidence: I suspect they are very disappointed.

2. To have doubts about (something); distrust: I suspect his motives.

3. To consider (a person) guilty without proof: The police suspect her of murder.

v.intr.

To have suspicion.

n. (sŭs′pĕkt′)

One who is suspected, especially of having committed a crime.

adj. (sŭs′pĕkt′, sə-spĕkt′)

Open to or viewed with suspicion: a suspect policy; suspect motives.

[Middle English suspecten, from Old French suspecter, from Latin suspectāre, frequentative of suspicere, to look up at, suspect : su-, sub-, from below; see sub- + specere, to look at; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]

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suspected

(səˈspɛktɪd)

adj

believed guilty of an offence(of an illness, condition, etc) thought probable but not diagnosed

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Adj.

suspected - believed likely; "a suspected thief"; "a suspected infection"

unsuspected - not suspected or believed likely; "remained unsuspected as the head of the spy ring"; "he was able to get into the building unspotted and unsuspected"; "unsuspected difficulties arose"; "unsuspected turnings in the road"

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suspected

[səsˈpektɪd] ADJ [thief, murderer, crime] → presunto
she was taken to hospital with suspected appendicitis → la llevaron al hospital pensando que podía tener apendicitis
she collapsed yesterday with a suspected heart attack → ayer sufrió un colapso y se sospecha que la causa fue un ataque al corazón

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suspected

[səˈspɛktɪd] adj [sabotage, terrorist] → présumé(e)
He is a suspected member of this organization → C'est un membre présumé de cette organisation.
a suspected terrorist → un présumé terroriste
He died from a suspected heart attack
BUT Il est mort, victime de ce que l'on suppose être un infarctus.
He had a suspected broken arm
BUT On pensait qu'il avait le bras cassé.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

suspected

[səsˈpɛktɪd] adj → presunto/a
to have a suspected fracture → avere una sospetta frattura

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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But this would not be done to men of base natures; for they, if they find themselves once suspected, will never be true.

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You ought to have suspected, because when we were talking of the murderer's arrival, I said to you: 'I am quite sure Larsan will be here to-night.'

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I suspected you of being concerned in the disaster which had overtaken me -- because I felt positively certain at Aldborough that you and Mrs.

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"The other officer has done a world of harm to this inquiry, by letting the servants see that he suspected them.

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"Yes, when the house where he fraternizes is suspected."

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Willoughby certainly does not deserve to be suspected. Though WE have not known him long, he is no stranger in this part of the world; and who has ever spoken to his disadvantage?

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"If you happened to meet with the suspected man," he said, "have you any means of identifying him?"

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Sylvain Couttet, keeper of the cabin there, suspected a misfortune, and sent down to the valley for help.

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Vernon was then convinced of what she had only suspected before, that she might have spared herself all the trouble of urging a removal which Lady Susan had doubtless resolved on from the first.

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He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times of eating; upon which side they lay in bed; with which hand they wipe their posteriors; take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green; but quite different, when he thought only of raising an insurrection, or burning the metropolis.

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And they might not even then have suspected it, but for the following little Accident.

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Tip got one small prick in his left arm, which smarted for an hour afterward; but the needles had no effect upon the Scarecrow or Jack Pumpkinhead, who never even suspected they were being prodded.