suspicioned

verb

past tense of suspicion, chiefly dialect
as in guessed
to form an opinion from little or no evidence no one will ever suspicion that I'm the one who pulled the prank

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suspicioned
  1. guessed
  2. assumed
  3. suspected
  4. supposed
  5. thought
  6. presumed
Verb
  • Wood anyone have guessed that Colin Jost and Michael Che are Swifties?
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Monahan did more digging and found out there were three adult brothers living in Boston who could have owned the canns, and DeAngelis guessed that they were made before Henry Vassall’s death in 1769.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of guessed
Verb
  • Riverside County Sheriff's Office Investigators with RSO's Central Homicide Unit assumed the investigation and determined that 34-year-old Brea resident Daniel Grossman was a suspect in the shooting.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Some assumed her husband was jealous, which was not the case.
    — William Earl, Variety, 9 Nov. 2026
Definition of assumed
Verb
  • British prosecutors charged two British nationals under the National Security Act in relation to the incident outside RAF Fairford airbase, with police saying the two were suspected of assisting Iran.
    — Natasha Bertrand, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Alcohol is suspected as a contributing factor, pending an autopsy by the Stanislaus County Coroner's Office.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of suspected
Verb
  • It’s supposed to be a sweeping and constructive process, akin to holding up a mirror to governments to improve their human rights policies.
    — Jamey Keaten, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The shoe was supposed quickly return the following month with the more traditional upper construction seen now, only in a natural mix of browns, but the release wound up being cancelled.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of supposed
Verb
  • People may have been getting high off cannabis earlier than previously thought -- at least 2,800 years ago, a new study suggests.
    — Mary Evans, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
  • That was so shocking; whoever was manning the CW's scorebug thought the kick was as good as gold and hung three points on the board.
    — Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of thought
Verb
  • Savannah Guthrie has taken to social media to urge anyone with knowledge about her mother, Nancy, who was presumed kidnapped in February and has yet to be found, to come forward.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Coroner’s officials are examining human remains found in a Natomas Crossing field earlier this week that are presumed to be those of Lovett Moore, a blind 33-year-old man who disappeared from a Natomas convenience store more than a year ago.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of presumed
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