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Definition of accuse
accused
;accusing
transitive verb
1 : to charge with a fault or offense : blame He accused her of being disloyal.
2 : to charge with an offense judicially or by a public process He was accused of murder.
intransitive verb
: to bring an accusation
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Examples of accuse in a Sentence
she was accused of lying on the employment application
Recent Examples of accuse from the Web
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The U.S. also has pursued companies outside North Korea accused of surreptitiously helping the communist country, such as a small Chinese bank the U.S. penalized last week for allegedly laundering money for North Korea.
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A Shelby County woman is behind bars, accused of shaking a young child so hard that there was injury to the brain.
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Erdogan’s lawyers are opening court cases against people accused of insulting him at a pace of more than 10 per day, justice ministry data show.
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On June 29th three human-rights groups in France submitted a complaint to a judge, accusing BNP of war crimes and complicity in genocide in Rwanda, in 1994, when 800,000 people, mostly members of the Tutsi minority, were massacred.
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A 21-year-old Blue Springs man has been charged with murder, accused of killing his grandfather and leaving the 77-year-old victim in a freezer.
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Miami-Dade police responded Tuesday morning to at least one dead in the Cutler Bay home of a husband and wife accused of sexually molesting the wife’s teenage sister.
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The Trump administration also recently put economic sanctions on two Chinese citizens accused of helping North Korea’s missile program.
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Díaz accuses the group’s leadership of orchestrating the attacks.
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Origin and Etymology of accuse
Middle English, from Anglo-French accuser, from Latin accusare to call to account, from ad- + causa lawsuit
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ACCUSE Defined for English Language Learners
accuse
playDefinition of accuse for English Language Learners
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: to blame (someone) for something wrong or illegal : to say that someone is guilty of a fault or crime
ACCUSE Defined for Kids
accuse
playDefinition of accuse for Students
accused
;accusing
: to blame for something wrong or illegal She accused him of stealing.
accuser
nounLaw Dictionary
accuse
Legal Definition of accuse
accused
accusing
transitive verb
intransitive verb
accuser
nounOrigin and Etymology of accuse
Latin accusare to find fault with, charge with a crime, from ad to, at + causa legal case, trial
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