suspect

/ˈsʌspekt/ noun [C]

Definition

› someone who may have committed a crime: He's the prime suspect (= the most likely suspect) in the murder case.

(Definition of suspect noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

real or true

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