{
    "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’."
}