suspected of (suspect in) a crime

  • 21Crime and Punishment — For other uses, see Crime and Punishment (disambiguation). Crime and Punishment   …

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  • 22suspect — sus•pect v. [[t]səˈspɛkt[/t]] n. [[t]ˈsʌs pɛkt[/t]] adj. [[t]ˈsʌs pɛkt, səˈspɛkt[/t]] v. t. 1) to believe to be guilty, with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder[/ex] 2) to doubt or mistrust: I suspect his motives[/ex] 3) to believe… …

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  • 23suspect — verb (t) /səˈspɛkt / (say suh spekt) 1. to imagine to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with insufficient proof or with no proof. 2. to imagine or believe to be rightly chargeable with something stated, usually… …

  • 24Crime fiction — Murder mystery redirects here. For other uses, see Murder mystery (disambiguation). Sherlock Holmes, pipe puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. Crime fiction is the… …

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  • 25suspect — 1. verb /ˈsʌs.pɛkt,səsˈpɛkt/ a) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true without evidence. I suspect his theory. b) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone). I suspect him of lying …

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  • 26suspect — To have a slight or even vague idea concerning; not necessarily involving knowledge or belief or likelihood. Suspect with reference to probable cause as grounds for arrest without warrant is commonly used in place of the word believe. A person… …

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  • 27suspect — sus·pect || sÉ™ spekt , sÉ™s n. one who is under suspicion, one who is suspected of a crime or offense v. surmise, imagine to be so, believe to be true; distrust, doubt; believe a person to be guilty of a crime or wrongdoing adj. doubtful,… …

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  • 28suspect — verb sə spɛkt 1》 believe (something) to be probable or possible.     ↘believe (someone) to be guilty of a crime or offence, without certain proof. 2》 doubt the genuineness or truth of. noun sʌspɛkt a person suspected of a crime or offence.… …

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  • 29Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement — ▪ 2006 Introduction Trials of former heads of state, U.S. Supreme Court rulings on eminent domain and the death penalty, and high profile cases against former executives of large corporations were leading legal and criminal issues in 2005.… …

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  • 30Abergil crime family — משפחת הפשע אברג יל Itzhak Abergil, center, escorted by Israeli forces at Ben Gurion airport, Israel, January 12, 2011 …

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