| suspect | (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspicious |
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| (noun) someone who is under suspicion | - |
| (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: defendant |
| (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
| (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable | Synonyms: surmise |
| (verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty | - |
| suspected | (adjective) believed likely | - |
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| suspend | (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: freeze |
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| (verb) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid | - |
| (verb) make inoperative or stop | Synonyms: set aside |
| (verb) hang freely | - |
| (verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: debar |
| (verb) render temporarily ineffective | - |
| suspended | (adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment | - |
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| suspender | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, gallus |
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| suspense | (noun) an uncertain cognitive state | - |
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| (noun) excited anticipation of an approaching climax | - |
| (noun) apprehension about what is going to happen | - |
| suspenseful | (adjective) (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense | Synonyms: cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspensive |
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| suspension | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, hanging |
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| (noun) a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc) | Synonyms: temporary removal |
| (noun) a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: suspension system |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, respite |
| (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: abeyance |
| (noun) a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy | - |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, pause |
| suspensive | (adjective) undecided or characterized by indecisiveness | - |
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| (adjective) (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense | Synonyms: cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspenseful |
| suspensor | (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, jockstrap, supporter |
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| suspensory | (noun) a bandage of elastic fabric applied to uplift a dependant part (as the scrotum or a pendulous breast) | Synonyms: suspensory bandage |
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| suspicion | (noun) being of a suspicious nature | Synonyms: suspiciousness |
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| (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, misgiving, mistrust |
| (noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: hunch, intuition |
| (noun) the state of being suspected | - |
| suspicious | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, mistrustful, untrusting, wary |
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| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspect |
| suspiciously | (adverb) with suspicion | - |
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| suspiciousness | (noun) being of a suspicious nature | Synonyms: suspicion |
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| suspiration | (noun) an utterance made by exhaling audibly | Synonyms: sigh |
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| suspire | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: breathe, respire, take a breath |
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| (verb) heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily | Synonyms: sigh |