Usually means: Claim asserting someone did wrong.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word accusation:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. accusation: Merriam-Webster
  2. accusation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accusation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accusation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. accusation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Accusation, accusation: Wordnik
  7. accusation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. accusation: Wiktionary
  9. accusation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. accusation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. accusation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Accusation, The Accusation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Accusation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. accusation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. accusation: Rhymezone
  16. accusation, accusation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. accusation: FreeDictionary.org
  18. accusation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. accusation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. accusation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. accusation: Infoplease Dictionary
  22. accusation: Dictionary.com
  23. accusation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  24. accusation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. accusation: Merriam-Webster

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. accusation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. accusation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. accusation: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. accusation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accusation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The act of accusing.
▸ noun:  (law) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
▸ noun:  An allegation.

Similar:
accusal, charge, accusing, incrimination, j'accuse, allegation, blaming, accrimination, indictment, counteraccusation, more...

Opposite:
exoneration, acquittal

Phrases:
blood accusation, veiled accusation, unspoken accusation, counter accusation, self accusation, more...

Adjectives:
false, such, same, serious, formal, unjust, public, self, direct, terrible, common

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Similar:
accusal, charge, accusing, incrimination, j'accuse, allegation, blaming, accrimination, indictment, counteraccusation, more...

Opposite:
exoneration, acquittal

Phrases:
blood accusation, veiled accusation, unspoken accusation, counter accusation, self accusation, False accusation of rape, False accusation, Accusation in a mirror, 2014 Santa Ana kidnapping accusation, more...

Adjectives:
false, such, same, serious, formal, unjust, public, self, direct, terrible, common

Colors:
    gray,     black,     red,     dark red,     maroon, more...



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