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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accuse
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
accuse sb of being a liar
▪ He accused me of being a liar.
accuse sb of murder (=say that you think someone murdered a person)
▪ Dillon was accused of both murders.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The boys are also accused of the attempted abduction of another youngster.
▪ Three other female recruits have also accused him of rape.
▪ The authority had also accused him of encouraging homosexuality in his religious education lessons.
▪ Her devotees could assume the form of horses and were also accused of riding men to death on their beds.
▪ His son, who lives in Brafferton Street, Hartlepool, is also accused of attempted murder.
▪ The president also accused former Gen.
▪ They are also accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
▪ Amos Brown, a supervisor, also accuse Graham of failing to fight hard enough against the sin of racism.
falsely
▪ Also patron of childbirth, the falsely accused, midwives, and obstetricians.
▪ It is particularly concerned that assessments should not falsely accuse parents and families on the basis of unproven diagnostic and predictive techniques.
▪ We have been reviled, falsely accused, imprisoned for life.
▪ Once before you falsely accused me, claiming I was the one possessed by Belzebub. 2.
▪ The Gamester also ended tragically when Beverly, a gambler, falsely accused of murder, committed suicide by taking poison.
■ NOUN
authority
▪ They accuse the authorities of intimidating others to stop them joining their ranks.
▪ They accused the law enforcement authorities of violating their civil rights by, among other things, fabricating evidence.
▪ All too frequently, Conservative Members are wrongly accused of being anti-local authorities.
▪ It would not be fair to accuse the authorities of doing nothing.
▪ Foreign observers also accused the authorities of widespread malpractice.
company
▪ According to the indictment, the accused companies paid him about $ 4.2m over 10 years.
▪ The retailers accuse the two credit-card companies of illegally tying their debitcard products to their credit cards.
crime
▪ But it should apply to the accused too until the crime is proved.
▪ This is not about depriving people accused of crimes of their legitimate rights, including the presumption of innocence.
▪ Two prisoners are accused of a crime.
▪ Weeks later, on July 12, 1986, Hall and her then-husband, Peter, were accused of the crime.
▪ Oh, nobody can accuse me of a crime.
▪ The subjects of the investigation have not been accused of any crimes.
▪ He had not been accused of a crime, yet Curtis Brown spent 10 of his last days in a jail cell.
critic
▪ Clash looms over air traffic control Many critics of Railtrack accuse it of putting profits above passenger safety.
▪ Some critics have accused these Western pop artists of exploiting Third World traditions in an extension of cultural imperialism.
▪ Q: How do you respond to those critics who accuse the movie of being over-directed?
▪ But critics have accused him of being autocratic and intolerant of dissent.
▪ Walesa's critics had accused him of dangerous populism which threatened political and economic stability.
government
▪ There was no disagreement in accusing the National government of callousness and indifference.
▪ Minority voices on both sides will complain and accuse their governments of selling out.
▪ They accused the government, which is led by Hindu nationalists, of caving in to foreign pressure.
▪ The report accused the government of intensifying the violence by resorting to widespread repression.
▪ She accused the Congress government of treating the whole Sikh community as extremists, and authorising untold atrocities.
▪ They accused the government of trying to manipulate the composition of the conference.
▪ AD/M-19 leaders accused the government, in accepting this ruling, of letting political decisions be taken by judges.
involvement
▪ He is accused of involvement in the deaths and disappearance of up to 10,000 people during the war in Kosovo.
leader
▪ Student leaders accuse him of failing to understand the system.
▪ AD/M-19 leaders accused the government, in accepting this ruling, of letting political decisions be taken by judges.
▪ Union leaders accused the principal of scaremongering in an attempt to wreck today's strike.
man
▪ A member of the Princess Royal's team accused the men from the Star of playing out of order.
▪ Her devotees could assume the form of horses and were also accused of riding men to death on their beds.
▪ A third accused man has just died.
▪ He was accused of killing one man in 1988 and another in 1991.
▪ Wilmot, of Waterloo, Liverpool, is jointly accused with another man of stealing a radio cassette player from a car.
minister
▪ However, Asda accused the Prime Minister of looking for a scapegoat.
▪ He had accused the Minister of the Interior and police chiefs of taking bribes from drug traffickers.
murder
▪ His son, who lives in Brafferton Street, Hartlepool, is also accused of attempted murder.
▪ He has apparently upset the police by claiming to have an alibi for a teenager accused of murder.
▪ The Gamester also ended tragically when Beverly, a gambler, falsely accused of murder, committed suicide by taking poison.
▪ They are accused of inspiring the murders of secular intellectuals in the 1990s, but they deny this.
▪ Anonymous flyers posted around town have accused him of murder and threatened him with lynching.
▪ Details about a politician accused of murder.
▪ Eddie Griffin plays the unfortunate suit who is falsely accused of murder.
party
▪ We hate doing this because it could be handy information in the event the other party ever accuses us of a transgression.
▪ The parties accused de Gaulle of preparing a plebiscite; the General accused them of coveting an irresponsible, omnipotent assembly.
police
▪ The family accused the police of being too quick to dismiss the deaths of Errol and Jason McGowan as suicide.
▪ Villagers accused the police of raping the sisters and killing them before quitting the post.
president
▪ He tried to impeach Mr Premadasa, accusing the president of corruption.
▪ He accused the president, Alberto Fujimori, of vote-rigging.
▪ But when Eisenhower opposed changes in the law, Durkin resigned and accused the Republican president of a double-cross.
■ VERB
stand
▪ A mere 18 months ago members of his International Olympic Committee stood accused of taking bribes.
▪ He stands accused of possessing cocaine and marijuana.
▪ No surprise, then, that the airline stands accused of corporate arrogance and customer neglect.
▪ The two officials stand accused of ordering the beatings.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stand accused (of sth)
▪ A mere 18 months ago members of his International Olympic Committee stood accused of taking bribes.
▪ He stands accused of possessing cocaine and marijuana.
▪ He stood accused of trying to disguise a crude revenue-raising measure.
▪ It stands accused of being elitist and inaccessible.
▪ No surprise, then, that the airline stands accused of corporate arrogance and customer neglect.
▪ The two officials stand accused of ordering the beatings.
the accused
▪ According to the sixth amendment, the accused has the right to a fair and public trial.
▪ The accused is being held in the Pelham County Jail on charges of assault and battery.
▪ The accused, Dorothy Jackson, was being held in the Tarrant County Jail on a charge of assault.
▪ The judge asked the jury if they found the accused guilty or not guilty.
▪ The witness told the court that she had never seen either of the accused before.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A former businessman has gone on trial accused of a two million pound investment fraud.
▪ Are you accusing her of lying?
▪ How can you accuse me without knowing all the facts?
▪ Human rights lawyers have accused the police of beating Murkett to death.
▪ Protesters angrily accused the police of violence and intimidation.
▪ The man accused of kidnapping Lucy Pohl has been found guilty.
▪ The woman was accused of having beaten her four-year-old daughter.
▪ They're accusing me without any proof.
▪ West has been accused of first-degree murder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A: Nobody ever accuses Hollywood of making historically accurate films.
▪ Ramaphosa's own transformation into a tycoon has disappointed some blacks, who accuse him of desertion.
▪ Such considerations affect the way the courts decide on what sentence to pass on the accused.
▪ The commission, which accused both sides of atrocities, has been criticised from left and right.
▪ To be actually accused point blank by an outraged husband!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accuse

Accuse \Ac*cuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accused; p. pr. & vb. n. Accusing.] [OF. acuser, F. accuser, L. accusare, to call to account, accuse; ad + causa cause, lawsuit. Cf. Cause.]

  1. To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense; (Law) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

    Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
    --Acts xxiv. 13.

    We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.

    Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
    --Rom. ii. 15.

  3. To betray; to show. [R.]
    --Sir P. Sidney.

    Syn: To charge; blame; censure; reproach; criminate; indict; impeach; arraign.

    Usage: To Accuse, Charge, Impeach, Arraign. These words agree in bringing home to a person the imputation of wrongdoing. To accuse is a somewhat formal act, and is applied usually (though not exclusively) to crimes; as, to accuse of treason. Charge is the most generic. It may refer to a crime, a dereliction of duty, a fault, etc.; more commonly it refers to moral delinquencies; as, to charge with dishonesty or falsehood. To arraign is to bring (a person) before a tribunal for trial; as, to arraign one before a court or at the bar public opinion. To impeach is officially to charge with misbehavior in office; as, to impeach a minister of high crimes. Both impeach and arraign convey the idea of peculiar dignity or impressiveness.

Accuse

Accuse \Ac*cuse"\, n. Accusation. [Obs.]
--Shak.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accuse

c.1300, "charge (with an offense, etc.), impugn, blame," from Old French acuser "to accuse, indict, reproach, blame" (13c.), earlier "announce, report, disclose" (12c.), or directly from Latin accusare "to call to account," from ad- "against" (see ad-) + causari "give as a cause or motive," from causa "reason" (see cause (n.)). Related: Accused; accusing; accusingly.

Wiktionary
accuse

n. (context obsolete English) An accusation. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To find fault with, to blame, to censure. 2 (context transitive English) To charge with having committed a crime or offence. 3 (context intransitive English) To make an accusation against someone.

WordNet
accuse

  1. v. bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "He charged the man with spousal abuse" [syn: impeach, incriminate, criminate]

  2. blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged me director with indifference" [syn: charge]

Usage examples of "accuse".

Justices Black, Douglas, and Murphy, Justice Rutledge, who also is of the opinion that the absolute right to counsel granted by the Sixth Amendment should be enjoyed in State criminal trials, insisted that even under the fair trial doctrine, the accused had not been accorded due process.

As an accredited representative of my government, I could hardly be accused of doing such a thing without conclusive proof.

And remember, when a magistrate has been proved to have falsely accused an innocent person, the law will mete out to the accuser the punishment he wanted to give to the accused.

To pivot affirmance on the question of the amount of harm done the accused is to beg the constitutional question involved.

Good reaffirmed her innocence, tried to shift the blame first to both of the other accused women, and then specifically claimed that it was Sarah Osborne who pinched and afflicted the children.

Even though authorities had arrested, examined, and incarcerated the accused witches, the suffering of the afflicted continued.

The afflicted were permitted to be near the accused during the examination, and they increasingly charged that the accused were audacious enough to harm them in the presence of authorities.

Thomas standing before the queen, his cold voice demanding an annulment, accusing her of theft and deception before a roomful of smirking courtiers and elegant women.

The anthropocentric illusion rebelled against the word of Darwin, accusing him of lowering the human life to the level of the dirt or of the brute.

He moved to have Thomas of Gloucester and the chief men of the antimonarchical party accused of treason.

Tertullian accused him, and the sagacious Erasistratus introduced his mild antiphlogistic treatment in opposition to the polypharmacy and antidotal practice of his time.

But as soon as they were united at Anagni and Fundi, in a place of security, they cast aside the mask, accused their own falsehood and hypocrisy, excommunicated the apostate and antichrist of Rome, and proceeded to a new election of Robert of Geneva, Clement the Seventh, whom they announced to the nations as the true and rightful vicar of Christ.

And when the accused has given him a copy of the appeal, the Judge shall notify him that he has yet two days before he need answer it, and after those two days thirty more before he need prepare the apostils of the case.

Judge must take care that, when he affixes a term for the accused who is appealing and petitioning for apostils, he must provide not only for the giving, but both for the giving and receiving of apostils.

And he gives this answer to the said accused who make this undue appeal in the form of negative apostils, and commands that they be given to him immediately after the said appeal.