Accuse
[ə'kjuːz] or [ə'kjuz]
Definition
(verb.) bring an accusation against; level a charge against; 'The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse'.
Checker: Wilmer--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Accusation.
(v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
(v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
(v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
(v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]
Editor: Ozzie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Charge, impeach, arraign, indict, criminate, inculpate, incriminate, tax, inform against, call to account, take to task.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Charge, incriminate, impeach, arraign, tax, taunt, censure, cite, summon,criminate
ANT:Defend, vindicate, discharge, acquit, absolve, condone, pardon, exonerate,release
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Definition
v.t. to bring a charge against: to blame (with of before the thing charged sometimes for).—adj. Accus′able that may be accused.—ns. Accus′al accusation; Accusā′tion the act of accusing: the charge brought against any one.—adjs. Accusatō′rial of an accuser; Accus′atory containing accusation.—n. Accuse (Shak.) accusation.—p.adj. Accused′ charged with a crime: usually as a n. the person accused.—ns. Accuse′ment (Spens.) a charge; Accus′er one who accuses or brings a charge against another.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you accuse any one of a mean action, denotes that you will have quarrels with those under you, and your dignity will be thrown from a high pedestal. If you are accused, you are in danger of being guilty of distributing scandal in a sly and malicious way. See similar words in following chapters.
Checker: Olivier
Unserious Contents or Definition
v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
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Examples
- The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And yet, he added, I won't deny that in some respects you accuse me justly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- No one, for example, would accuse Karl Marx of disloyalty to workingmen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I don't accuse him of any harm, said Mr. Vincy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Vholes, explains the client, somewhat abashed, I had no intention to accuse you of insensibility. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is idle to accuse him of leaving education alone, because the idea that empires must be cemented by education was still foreign to human thought. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have always been accused of being immoderate and saying too much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Poor, poor girl, is she the accused? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In that case one of the main points in favor of the accused disappears. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- While eating his cake, I could not forbear expressing my secret wish that I really knew all of which he accused me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She indeed requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A great fire had burnt a large part of Rome, and the new sect was accused of causing this. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Meyler's greatest enemy never accused him yet of uttering an untruth. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I don't know, she said, why you are always accusing me of premeditation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- My readers, besides accusing me of vanity, would not believe such exaggerated feeling as he evinced, to be in human nature. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He had almost as much as declared his conviction of her criminality last night: what mysterious cause withheld him from accusing her? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Oh, ELLEN-- she murmured, much in the same accusing and yet deprecating tone in which her parents might have said: Oh, THE BLENKERS--. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- My dear accusing angel! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Here is the 'Trumpet' accusing you of lagging behind--did you see? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Plutarch accuses Pericles of bringing it on, because he felt his popularity waned so fast that a war was needed to make him indispensable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It accuses them of crimes intended as well as perpetrated, sir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She accuses me to my face! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He accuses him of prodigality because of his great public buildings, and of being vain and dissolute (! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She weeps continually, and accuses herself unjustly as the cause of his death; her words pierce my heart. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Typist: Malcolm