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What is the verb for suspicious?

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suspect
  1. (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
  2. (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
  3. (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.
  4. (intransitive) To have suspicion.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. suppose, guess, conjecture, presume, imagine, feel, assume, speculate, surmise, expect, reckon, conclude, deduce, fancy, infer, consider, think, suspicion, believe, glean, daresay, opine, sense, gather, understand, fear, conceive, disbelieve, hold, be of the opinion, have a feeling, have a hunch, have a suspicion, be afraid, be inclined to think, think it likely, think it probable, have a sneaking feeling, have a sneaking suspicion, harbor suspicion, have a foreboding, have sneaking suspicion, hazard a guess, think probable, judge, theorize, presuppose, hypothesize, theorise, reason … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “What the prognosis for continued retention of this tooth may be, I do not profess to know, but I suspect it may be good.”
      “He said that he did not suspect Taylor, but suggested that Kelly may have been responsible for the presence of the drugs.”
      “There is room to suspect his honesty, and even to charge him with duplicity.”
suspected
  1. simple past tense and past participle of suspect
  2. Synonyms:
      3. took, assumed, supposed, presumed, expected, imagined, believed, gathered, surmised, conjectured, guessed, trusted, dared say, deduced, estimated, figured, hypothesized, reasoned, understood, divined, fancied, gleaned, inferred, reckoned, speculated, thought, compassed, concluded, construed, dare-said, deemed, granted, interpreted, judged, looked upon, perceived, posited, postulated, predicated, presupposed, theorized, hazarded a guess, hypothesised, theorised, took as read, took for granted, anticipated, forecast, predicted, sensed … more
suspects
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of suspect
  2. Synonyms:
      3. says, estimates, considers, dares say, guesses, hazards a guess, judges, posits, postulates, predicts, reckons, speculates, surmises, theorizes, thinks, ventures, conceives, deduces, figures, gathers, perceives, premises, takes, theorises, believes, envisages, deems, conjectures, supposes, imagines, assumes, presumes, expects, fancies, infers, feels, understands, concludes, presupposes, reasons, senses, daresays, hypothesizes, opines, hypothesises, divines, suspicions, holds, has a hunch, takes it … more
suspecteth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of suspect
suspicioned
  1. simple past tense and past participle of suspicion
  2. Synonyms:
      3. supposed, guessed, conjectured, presumed, imagined, surmised, assumed, suspected, speculated, daresayed, daresaid, thought, believed, expected, considered, inferred, fancied, deduced, gathered, reckoned, felt, judged, concluded, figured, opined, presupposed, deemed, conceived, understood, divined, gleaned, dared say, hazarded a guess, hypothesized, theorized, held, reasoned, hypothesised, theorised, esteemed, postulated, sensed, allowed, predicated, guesstimated, weened, pretended, had a hunch, had a sneaking suspicion, had sneaking suspicion … more
suspectest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of suspect
suspicioning
  1. present participle of suspicion
  2. Synonyms:
      3. supposing, guessing, conjecturing, presuming, imagining, surmising, assuming, suspecting, speculating, daresaying, thinking, believing, expecting, considering, inferring, fancying, deducing, gathering, reckoning, feeling, judging, concluding, figuring, opining, presupposing, deeming, conceiving, understanding, divining, gleaning, taking it, daring say, hazarding a guess, hypothesizing, theorizing, holding, reasoning, hypothesising, theorising, taking for granted, esteeming, postulating, sensing, allowing, predicating, guesstimating, weening, pretending, having a hunch, having a sneaking suspicion … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The widder, pore soul, suspicioning trouble, follered Jake, and found him with a bullet plumb through his heart.”
suspecting
  1. present participle of suspect
  2. Synonyms:
      3. feeling, sensing, having a feeling, getting the impression, feeling in one's bones, having a hunch, believing, conjecturing, having a funny feeling, presuming, supposing, betting, deducing, gathering, having a sneaking feeling, having a sneaking suspicion, having a suspicion, holding, hypothesizing, just knowing, fancying, having as one's opinion, hypothesising, imagining, inferring, intuiting, maintaining, philosophising, philosophizing, postulating, presupposing, surmising, theorising, theorizing, getting vibes, having a foreboding, suggesting, thinking it likely, venturing, having the impression, having funny feeling, having vibes, thinking, guessing, assuming, reckoning, expecting, considering, judging, speculating … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But those singled out for disfavor can be forgiven for suspecting more invidious forces at work.”
      “Rather contented with myself, I moved slowly down the hall, suspecting that Drake would assume the guard had killed me.”
      “In addition, the dealing of patients in suspecting the technostress ophthalmopathy was described.”
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