Usually means: To charge someone with wrongdoing.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. accuse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. accuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accuse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. accuse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Accuse, accuse: Wordnik
  7. accuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. accuse: Wiktionary
  9. accuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. accuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. accuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. accuse: Dictionary.com
  13. accuse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. accuse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Accuse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Accuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. accuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. accuse: Rhymezone
  19. accuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. accuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. accuse: Free Dictionary
  22. accuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. accuse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. accuse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. accuse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. accuse: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. accuse: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accuse: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. accuse: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) to find fault with, blame, censure
▸ verb:  (transitive, law, followed by "of") to charge with having committed a crime or offence
▸ verb:  (intransitive) to make an accusation against someone
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Accusation.

Similar:
impeach, criminate, incriminate, charge, fault, criticize, counteraccuse, find fault, beguilt, pick fault, more...

Opposite:
exonerate, acquit, clear

Phrases:
accuse of, Before You Accuse Me, falsely accuse, to accuse, accuse or charge someone with a crime, more...

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Similar:
impeach, criminate, incriminate, charge, fault, criticize, counteraccuse, find fault, beguilt, pick fault, more...

Opposite:
exonerate, acquit, clear

Phrases:
accuse of, Before You Accuse Me, falsely accuse, to accuse, accuse or charge someone with a crime, formally accuse, wrongly accuse, accuse me, accuse of being a liar, accuse of misconduct, accuse falsely, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     red,     dark red,     maroon,     burgundy,     charcoal,     crimson,     scarlet,     rust



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