Meaning & use
Suspecting
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Believing something to be likely or probable, especially something wrong or unpleasant, without firm proof.
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Suspecting a trap, the soldiers approached the village cautiously.
She had been suspecting her colleague of leaking information for weeks.
A note on using this word
Suspecting differs from 'knowing' in that it implies a belief based on intuition or partial evidence rather than certainty.
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Words with an opposite meaning
trusting
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