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IS and ARE are both forms of which verb?
Idioms about suspect
the usual suspects, the people, animals, or things that are commonly associated with a particular activity, situation, etc. (often used facetiously): We visited a family farm with sheep and bunnies and roosters and goats—the usual suspects!
Origin of suspect
First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English (adjective) from Latin suspectus, past participle of suspicere “to look up, look and see, regard with mistrust,” equivalent to su- “under, below, beneath” + -spicere, combining form of specere “to see, observe, keep an eye on, take into consideration”; (verb) partly from the adjective, partly from Middle French suspecter “to hold suspect,” or directly from Latin suspectāre, frequentative of suspicere; see su-
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How to use suspect in a sentence
As poverty is generally suspectible, the widow must be got handsomely aforehand; and no doubt but she is.
Clarissa, Volume 4 (of 9)|Samuel Richardson
British Dictionary definitions for suspect
suspect
verb (səˈspɛkt)
(tr) to believe guilty of a specified offence without proof
(tr) to think false, questionable, etcshe suspected his sincerity
(tr; may take a clause as object) to surmise to be the case; think probableto suspect fraud
(intr) to have suspicion
noun (ˈsʌspɛkt)
a person who is under suspicion
adjective (ˈsʌspɛkt)
causing or open to suspicion
Derived forms of suspect
suspecter, nounsuspectless, adjectiveWord Origin for suspect
C14: from Latin suspicere to mistrust, from sub- + specere to look
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