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adjective

Definition of accusednext
as in indicted

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accused

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noun

as in defendant

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accused

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verb

past tense of accuse
as in charged
to make a claim of wrongdoing against she was accused of lying on the employment application

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Recent Examples of accused
Verb
The Republican billionaire accused of fueling an infestation of rats in Chicago. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 In more recent times, moreover, the first steps taken by the Third Reich toward the Holocaust began with the economic boycott of the Jews, who were accused of harming the businesses and positions of their Aryan counterparts. — Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026 Chicago police are looking for three people accused of a brutal attack at a CTA Red Line station in the Old Town neighborhood on the Near North Side. — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 The Florida woman accused of killing her boyfriend and burying him in a shallow grave was found guilty of his murder. — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 While Hutson is not accused of helping the inmates pull off the escape, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said a state probe found that Hutson’s poor management led to the jailbreak. — ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026 By the time the panic ended, 152 people had been formally accused, 19 had been hanged, and one man, Giles Corey, had been pressed to death with stones for refusing to stand trial. — Jennifer Byrne, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026 The state’s top Democrats accused the president of politicizing disaster relief. — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026 Angel Carrasco, 31, is accused of killing 23-year-old Nathaly Ramirez, who somehow held onto and shielded her 8-month-old daughter just enough that the infant survived the plunge. — Theodore Parisienne, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accused
  1. indicted
  2. defendant
  3. charged
  4. culpable
  5. suspect
  6. blamed
  7. guilty
  8. offender
Adjective
  • Jim Trusty, the lawyer for Rozier, excoriated the league after a hearing Wednesday that served as a status update on Rozier’s case, as well as the other three defendants who remain indicted alongside him.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • The conservative-leaning New York Post has also reported Wahhaj was listed as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
Definition of indicted
Noun
  • The defendant and others are said to have used a yacht that departed from the German port of Rostock.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Prosecutors allege the defendants used Mexican identification documents belonging to other individuals to obtain IRS taxpayer identification numbers and file fraudulent returns.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of defendant
Verb
  • Last week prosecutors charged Kerry with preparing terrorist acts, including against Farage, between May 2024 and the day Widdecombe was killed.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Griffith and management were never charged, and the three men accused of trafficking the runaway girl — and stealing her tips — were arrested.
    — David Goodhue October 9, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of charged
Adjective
  • At Wednesday’s hearing, Paul described Niembro as the most culpable of the four defendants and Ramirez as second, while acknowledging that Ramirez’s cooperation justified a significantly shorter sentence.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Police opened a culpable homicide case, and the cause of the collision remained under investigation, Spies said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of culpable
Noun
  • Officers identified a suspect at the crime scene and took him into custody.
    — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Los Angeles County prosecutors identified the suspect in court records as Charanjit Singh.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of suspect
Verb
  • The city's medical examiner, Charles Norris, blamed the federal government's practice of adding toxic substances to industrial alcohol, including those involving methyl alcohol, also known as methanol, which can cause blindness and death.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Other adolescents have also suffered life-changing injuries blamed on police weaponry during protests.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of blamed
Adjective
  • He was released on a $175,000 bond April 20 and pleaded not guilty to the charges June 22.
    — Steven Mross, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Farwell has pleaded not guilty to charges of killing a witness or victim and failure to protect an unborn child.
    — Mark Osborne, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of guilty
Noun
  • The Oak Lawn and Alsip village boards voted to regulate the use of security foggers in businesses as a method to deter offenders.
    — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Too often, special occasions can feel like an excuse to buy a new outfit; weddings are the worst offenders.
    — Corinne Pierre-Louis, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
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