Verb

(en verb)

To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.

to suspect the presence of disease

* Milton

From her hand I could suspect no ill.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected .}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected , but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}

To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).

to suspect the truth of a story

(Addison)

To believe (someone) to be guilty.

To have suspicion.

(obsolete) To look up to; to respect.

Verb

(lb) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.

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(lb) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.

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*, chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew , made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}

(lb) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.

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(lb) To experience.

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*1991 , Irvin Haas, Historic Homes of the American Presidents , p.155:

*:The Truman family knew good times and bad,.

(lb) To distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.

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*(Bible)'', ''(w) 7.16 :

*:Ye shall know them by their fruits.

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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

*1980 , Armored and mechanized brigade operations , p.3−29:

*:Flares do not know friend from foe and so illuminate both. Changes in wind direction can result in flare exposure of the attacker while defenders hide in the shadows.

(lb) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.

* (Thomas Flatman), Translation of Part of (Petronius) Arbiter's (Satyricon)

*:At nearer view he thought he knew the dead, / And call'd the wretched man to mind.

*1818 , (w), (Frankenstein) :

*:Ernest also is so much improved, that you would hardly know him:.

To understand from experience or study.

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(lb) To understand (a subject).

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To have sexual relations with.

*, (w) 4.1:

*:And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

(lb) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.

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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

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(lb) To be or become aware or cognizant.

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To be acquainted (with another person).

*1607 , (William Shakespeare), (Antony and Cleopatra) , :

*:You and I have known , sir.