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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
suspected
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a suspected terrorist
▪ Coalition forces killed at least 20 suspected terrorists.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
heart
▪ Not for sleeping on, it was stressed, but for direst emergencies only, such as dying, birthing or suspected heart attack.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All opponents or suspected opponents of the military government are being detained.
▪ Four men were arrested for their suspected roles in the bombing.
▪ He was attacked at his home after confronting a suspected burglar.
▪ They have succeeded in bringing many suspected terrorists to justice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hasegawa had collapsed at the Imperial Palace on Sept. 3 with a suspected cerebral stroke.
▪ He and a friend, Trevor Nott, were arrested as suspected accomplices in a visa-forging ring.
▪ In Basic Instinct she played a suspected killer chased by cop Michael Douglas.
▪ The second requirement is that the date of first registration is more than three years from the date of the suspected offence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suspected

Suspect \Sus*pect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suspected; p. pr. & vb. n. Suspecting.]

  1. To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.

    Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more.
    --Bacon.

    From her hand I could suspect no ill.
    --Milton.

  2. To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.

  3. To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
    --Addison.

  4. To look up to; to respect. [Obs.]

    Syn: To mistrust; distrust; surmise; doubt.

Suspected

Suspected \Sus*pect"ed\, a. Distrusted; doubted. -- Sus*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Sus*pect"ed*ness, n.

Wiktionary
suspected
  1. Of something or one believed to be of cause or at fault. v

  2. (en-past of: suspect)

WordNet
suspected

adj. believed likely; "a suspected thief"; "a suspected infection" [ant: unsuspected]

Usage examples of "suspected".

Even without the brandy he suspected he would have opted for bed, being just too dog-tired.

Yolanda in a position of breaching confidences of his aiji and her captains, which he very much suspected she would resist.

He wondered if Kroger knew, and if Tabini knew, and suspected the dowager already did.

No one could invent those muddy shades on purpose: it was, Bren suspected what the extrusion medium tended to do with the dyes they injected to better a natural puce.

He suspected he knew the name she would not speak, even though he could not remember it himself.

Erik suspected Manfred could crunch clams without even bothering to open them.

The knights, she suspected, would obey the abbothowever reluctantlyif the priest who had actual authority here denied sanctuary to her and the children.

The Sots, though they might harass women they suspected of being whores in and around their own stronghold or inside churches, had not yet become brave enough to go after the Scarlet Women at their own doorsteps.

Caesare had never been sure, but he suspected that killing had been the one which finally tipped Fortunato Bespi over the edge.

And if the grotesquely brutal manner in which it killed the prey seemed obsessive, Dorma suspected that it was not.

He suspected, more and more, that the fiend killed in this manner simply because it came naturally.

Dorma suspected that the only reason the shopkeeper had heard anything was because he had been wide awake and, as often happened with elderly merchants, had become extraordinarily sensitive to the risk of burglary.

Two dead Matteoni brothers, with a third onethe one who had attacked him, whom he suspected had come on the scene laterslumped against the wall, staring at him with fogged eyes and a swaying head.

Lopez shouted somethingagain, in that odd language which Erik had thought was Greek but now suspected was something else entirelyand held the crucifix high.

Nine men who, Dorma had whispered briefly as they entered, represented the Senatebut Kat suspected were really, along with Dorma himself, the entire Council of Ten.