suspect
verb (used with object)
to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof.
is suspecting
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present progressiveof suspect (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The most common delusion is that of persecution, that is suspecting others of harboring plots to hurt or injure them.
From Slate ● May 31, 2017
Sure enough, Mobley is arrested by Dom DiPierro, but she has no idea how high up he is, suspecting him merely of being the D.J. at fsociety’s party the night of the hack.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2016
That is why she is suspecting an inside job.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2012
Another is suspecting that everyone else in the car wants you to pay for the petrol, the motorway meal and probably the overnight hotel too.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2012
What makes people jealous usually is suspecting the other person of having the same sort of secret they have themselves.
From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe
