v
(transitive, obsolete) To accuse of a crime.
v
(transitive) to find fault with, blame, censure
n
(now rare) An accusation.
v
Obsolete spelling of acquit. [(transitive) To declare or find innocent or not guilty.]
n
(law) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
v
To provide an alibi for.
v
(transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
v
(obsolete) To impute (something) as a fault to or upon someone.
v
(transitive, intransitive, colloquial, archaic) To reason (something) out, to fully consider, think through.
v
To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
v
(obsolete) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles or accusations.
v
To refute (an argument, an objection, etc.).
n
Alternative form of assythment [(Scotland, law, historical) Compensation or reparation for a criminal offence.]
adj
(obsolete) Convicted, attainted.
n
(obsolete) A state of being found guilty of an offence.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To take to task; tax; reprove; blame.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To render guilty; burden with a sense of guilt.
v
(idiomatic) To cause a person alleged to have committed criminal acts to be brought to trial on the offenses.
v
Obsolete spelling of censor [(transitive) To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive).]
v
(transitive, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) To prepare such a document of accusation against.
v
To prove the innocence of a person previously considered or suspected to be guilty.
n
One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To acquit (a person), or acquit a person of (an offence), by compurgation.
n
(now chiefly historical) Acquitting someone from a formal charge or accusation following the sworn oaths of a number of other people; vindication.
v
(transitive) To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
n
(Canada, US, law enforcement slang) A person who falsely confesses to a crime.
v
(transitive, now rare) To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
v
(transitive) To dispute, to argue about (something).
v
(transitive) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To confute; to prove wrong.
v
(transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate.
v
To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
v
(transitive) To condemn openly.
n
The announcement of termination (of a treaty).
v
(law, obsolete, transitive) To prove or to refute by proof, especially on threat of combat.
v
Obsolete form of gloss (“to plan to do something”). [(transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.]
v
(intransitive) To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct.
n
The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.
v
(transitive, criminology) Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person. See frameup.
v
To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
v
(transitive) To indicate the guilt of.
v
(law) To imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate.
v
To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
v
(obsolete) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To accuse.
n
An accusation, especially one made publicly.
v
(intransitive) To dispute the meanings of words.
v
To make a self-serving, politically-motivated accusation or prosecution.
v
(transitive) To solemnly pronounce
n
A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
v
(transitive) To announce or publish the banns of marriage of (a couple) in church for the third time.
v
(intransitive) To sentence; to pronounce a sentence on a criminal.
v
(transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something).
v
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
v
To formally accuse a person of a crime, especially by an ordinary person.
v
(idiomatic) To insist so passionately about something that people suspect the opposite of what one is saying.
n
Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
n
(law) The arguing of a legal case again.
v
(obsolete) To reconnoiter.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To accuse in return, state an accusation in return, make a countercharge.
n
(criminal law) The bringing together of the offending party and the victim(s) so that the offender can see the harm and suffering they have inflicted on the victim or the victim’s family. The offender has the opportunity to apologise to the victim and make amends.
v
(intransitive, chiefly historical) Specifically, to lodge an official objection (especially by means of a remonstrance) with a monarch or other ruling body.
n
One who holds that there must be retribution (vengeance, punishment) for transgressions.
v
(intransitive) To incriminate oneself.
n
(informal) A legal defense strategy in which the defendant categorically denies any involvement.
n
Something or someone who suspends.
n
The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To serve as evidence which casts doubt upon.
n
An accusation or serious charge.
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