Difference between Suspect and Surmise

SUSPECT vs SURMISE: NOUN

A vague or slight opinion.
Suspicion.
One who is suspected, especially of having committed a crime.
A person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused
Something suspicious; something causing suspicion.
One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
Someone who is under suspicion
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
A suspected person; one suspected of a crime, offense, or the like.

Thought; reflection.
Synonyms See surmise, verb, and inference.
The thought that something may be, of which, however, there is no certain or strong evidence; speculation; conjecture.
In ecclesiastical law, an allegation in a libel.
A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
Reflection; thought.
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, surmises of jealousy or of envy.
Reflection; thought; posit.
In old English law, a suggestion. See suggestion, 5.
An idea or opinion based on insufficiently conclusive evidence; a conjecture.
A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong.
To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct.
To look up to; to respect.

To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.

Have no faith or confidence in
Hold in suspicion
Believe to be guilty
Regard as untrustworthy
The person being sued or accused
Doubtful; uncertain.
Suspected; suspicious.
Regard with suspicion
To look up to; respect; esteem.
To hold to be uncertain; doubt; mistrust; distrust.
To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence or without proof.
To imagine to exist; have a vague or slight opinion of the existence of, often on weak or trivial evidence; mistrust; surmise.
To imagine guilt, danger, or the like; be suspicious.

Man, Perpetrator, Assailant, Queer, Shady, Mistrust, Distrust, Funny, Doubt, Questionable, Fishy, Surmise, Accused, Defendant, Suspicious

Hypothesize, Postulate, Posit, Deduce, Suppose, Assume, Suggest, Infer, Presume, Suspect, Speculation, Hypothesis, Conjecture, Guess, Supposition

Culprit, Perp, Man, Perpetrator, Assailant, Queer, Shady, Mistrust, Funny, Doubt, Questionable, Fishy, Accused, Defendant, Suspicious

Speculate, Believe, Postulate, Posit, Deduce, Suppose, Suggest, Infer, Presume, Suspect, Speculation, Hypothesis, Conjecture, Guess, Supposition

Police Arrest Suspect Linked To Kidnapping Of Food.
State legislation that displaced the common law was therefore suspect and federal legislation that displaced state common law was equally suspect.
The media is rolled or pushed into the suspect material and the porous nature of the media collects the suspect material.
Second, feedback is virtually impossible when the administrator does not know who the suspect is or which photograph is that ofthe suspect.
Immediately after the preliminary suspect interview, the detective should determine whether a forensic sexual assault examination of the suspect should be conducted.
Once the suspect exited the store, officers stopped the suspect.
Advocates say the latter would ensure a suspect is prosecuted and victims see justice served before the suspect is deported.
He searched the rooms on the fourth floor for the suspect without a warrant and arrested the suspect.
OPD officers located the suspect as he fled the area and made the arrest of the suspect.
If the suspect is not in custody, all questioning of the suspect will cease immediately.

They briefly surmise the superior qualities of such premium fonts.
The ramifications for future presidents are not difficult to surmise.
Hypothetical needs, surmise, and suspicion should be afforded no weight.
How much he saw of her, we can only surmise.
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Ifnot disproved, one may surmise that it is true.
Under torture, this time of wild surmise and alarm.
Within a few minutes his surmise was endorsed.
Now one could surmise different things about this.
But all that is surmise, but surmise that could be answered by examination of aerial or satellite photos.