Ignore and Suspect

Opposite meaning words

Ignore verb - To fail to give proper attention to.

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Suspect is an antonym for ignore.

Nearby Words: ignorance, ignoring

Suspect verb - To form an opinion from little or no evidence.

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Ignore is an antonym for suspect in distrust topic.

Nearby Words: suspected, suspecting

person	ignore person	suspect person
character	ignore character	suspect character
people	ignore people	suspect people
part	ignore part	suspect part
Other words: presence, time, way, story, existence.

In it, the suspect asks for his parents after being arrested by the police, and because the detectives do not have any obligation to satisfy an of-age (above 18) suspect's demand to see his parents, they ignore it and squeeze a confession out of him.

Source: Series / Law & Order
After he becomes so obsessed with a missing quart of strawberries that he begins to ignore his other duties, some of his officers begin to suspect that he is insane.Everything comes to a head when the Caine is caught in a typhoon, during which Queeg becomes paralyzed by indecision.

Source: Literature / The Caine Mutiny
In the episode "The Detail", The Wire turns out to be one of the few cop shows ever to point out that police interrogations are supposed to end as soon as the suspect asks to see legal counsel—a fact that pop culture depictions usually ignore for Rule of Drama.

Source: Series / The Wire

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