Accuse
11Accuse — Ac*cuse , n. Accusation. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] …
12accuse — [v] place blame for wrongdoing, fault allege, apprehend, arraign, arrest, attack, attribute, betray, blame, blow the whistle*, brand, bring charges, censure, charge, cite, complain, criminate, denounce, file claim, finger*, frame, hang something… …
13accuse — 01. He has been [accused] of murder in the death of his business partner. 02. She [accused] him of being mean to his dog. 03. She gave him an [accusing] look, and said that she didn t trust him. 04. His wife claimed she believed him, but gave him …
14accuse — verb ADVERB ▪ falsely, unjustly, wrongfully, wrongly ▪ angrily ▪ openly, publicly ▪ They openly accused …
15accuse */*/*/ — UK [əˈkjuːz] / US [əˈkjuz] verb [transitive] Word forms accuse : present tense I/you/we/they accuse he/she/it accuses present participle accusing past tense accused past participle accused to say that someone has done something wrong or committed …
16accuse — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. charge with, blame, censure, hold responsible, arraign, indict, impeach, prefer charges, file a claim, challenge, denounce, fault, find fault, attack, brand, impute, involve, inculpate, incriminate, implicate, summon,… …
17accuse — ac|cuse [ ə kjuz ] verb transitive *** to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime: accuse someone of doing something: I do not want to accuse him of telling lies. accuse someone of something: She claims that her boss… …
18accuse — /əˈkjuz / (say uh kyoohz) verb (t) (accused, accusing) 1. to bring a charge against; charge with the fault or crime: to accuse the defendant of a crime. 2. to ascribe fault to: to accuse someone of being lazy. {Latin accūsāre accuse, blame;… …
19accuse of — phr verb Accuse of is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑indictment Accuse of is used with these nouns as the object: ↑adultery, ↑cover up, ↑cowardice, ↑disloyalty, ↑favouritism, ↑impropriety, ↑incompetence, ↑involvement, ↑ …
20accuse — [13] Accuse comes via Old French acuser from the Latin verb accūsāre, which was based on the noun causa ‘cause’ – but cause in the sense not of ‘something that produces a result’, but of ‘legal action’ (a meaning preserved in English cause list,… …
