Accuse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To charge with a shortcoming or error.
  • v. To charge formally with a wrongdoing.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a charge of wrongdoing against another.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
  • v. To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
  • v. To make an accusation against someone.
  • n. An accusation - Shakespeare
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Accusation.
  • v. To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense.
  • v. To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
  • v. To betray; to show.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make an imputation against, as of a crime, fault, or error; charge with guilt or blame; affect with specific censure: used either absolutely or with of before the thing charged, and sometimes with for before the subject of censure: as, to accuse one of high crimes, or as an accomplice in crime; to accuse nature for our misfortunes.
  • To indicate; evince; show; manifest; show signs of.
  • Synonyms Accuse, Charge, Indict, Arraign, Impeach, Incriminate, criminate, inculpate, tax with, taunt with, impute to. Of these words charge is the most general, and may be the weakest, being used of any sort of imputation, large or small, against persons or things formally or informally, publicly or privately. Accuse commonly, though not invariably, expresses something more formal and grave than charge. Indict is a purely legal term, restricted to the action of a grand jury when it makes a formal complaint against a supposed offender, in order that he may be brought to trial. Arraign has primarily the same meaning with indict, but is freer in figurative use: as, to arraign a political party at the bar of public sentiment. Impeach is to bring to answer before some legislative body for wrong-doing in a public office, and has been so long associated with the peculiar dignity, solemnity, and impressiveness of such trials that it has been lifted into corresponding importance in its figurative uses. Incriminate is obsolescent except in the special meaning of involving another with one's self: as, in his confession he incriminated several persons hitherto unsuspected. To charge with a fault; to accuse of dishonesty; to indict for felony and arraign before the court; to impeach a magistrate or one's motives or veracity; to incriminate others with one's self in a confession of guilt.
  • n. Accusation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. bring an accusation against; level a charge against
  • v. blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
  • Antonym
    acquit   
    Verb Form
    accused    accuses    accusing   
    Hyponym
    indict    sully    denigrate    fault    calumniate    defame    asperse    smear    smirch    impeach   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accusation    reproach    indict    charge    impeach    censure    arraign    criminate    blame    betray   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chartreuse    Cruz    Druse    Druze    Hughes    Jews    Loos    Mahfouz    Meuse    Muse   
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