What is another word for accuse?
Synonyms for accuse
əˈkyuzac·cuse
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Wiktionary
accuseverb
accuseverb
To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
accuseverb
To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.
accuseverb
To make an accusation against someone.
accuseverb
English Synonyms and Antonyms
accuse
Arraign is an official word; a person accused of crime is arraigned when he is formally called into court, the indictment read to him, and the demand made of him to plead guilty or not guilty; in more extended use, to arraign is to call in question for fault in any formal, public, or official way. One may charge another with any fault, great or trifling, privately or publicly, formally or informally. Accuse is stronger than charge, suggesting more of the formal and criminal; a person may charge a friend with unkindness or neglect; he may accuse a tramp of stealing. Censure carries the idea of fault, but not of crime; it may be private and individual, or public and official. A judge, a president, or other officer of high rank may be impeached before the appropriate tribunal for high crimes; the veracity of a witness may be impeached by damaging evidence. A person of the highest character may be summoned as defendant in a civil suit; or he may be cited to answer as administrator, etc. Indict and arraign apply strictly to criminal proceedings, and only an alleged criminal is indicted or arraigned. One is indicted by the grand jury, and arraigned before the appropriate court.
Synonyms:
arraign, censure, charge, cite, impeach, indict, prosecute, summonAntonyms:
acquit, condone, discharge, excuse, exonerate, forgive, overlook, pardon, pardon, release, set freePreposition:
Arraign at the bar, before the tribunal, of or for a crime; on or upon an indictment.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminateverb
bring an accusation against; level a charge against
"The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse"
Synonyms:
incriminate, charge, criminate, inculpate, censure, impeach, imply, reprimandcharge, accuseverb
blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
"he charged the director with indifference"
Synonyms:
saddle, institutionalize, buck, shoot down, commove, turn on, shoot, appoint, institutionalise, agitate, incriminate, rouse, charge, consign, point, burden, file, bill, tear, level, blame, load, bear down, criminate, commit, impeach, charge up, excite, lodge, send
Editors Contribution
blame someone
thinking or saying someone is guilty.
isabelle accused anna for stilling the candy bar.
Submitted by Hjer9087 on November 10, 2021
Dictionary of English Synonymes
accuseverb
Synonyms:
charge, impeach, arraign, indict, criminate, inculpate, incriminate, tax, inform against, call to account, take to task
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "accuse":
accuses, blame, accusing, acknowledge, reproach, accused, charge, accusation
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#233 | send | |
#281 | file | |
#364 | level | |
#438 | point | |
#531 | tax | |
#813 | bill | |
#1453 | charge | |
#2135 | load | |
#3496 | lodge | |
#4105 | commit | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#6303 | burden | |
#6884 | accused | |
#7199 | blame | |
#7982 | cite | |
#8285 | buck | |
#8397 | acknowledge | |
#9356 | tear | |
#10771 | saddle | |
#10787 | imply | |
#12149 | appoint | |
#12803 | excite | |
#24818 | prosecute | |
#25600 | accuse | |
#28441 | accusing | |
#28954 | accusation | |
#29505 | summon | |
#29678 | rouse | |
#30882 | accuses | |
#33872 | impeach | |
#42143 | censure | |
#42903 | reproach | |
#44368 | reprimand | |
#53644 | taunt | |
#77223 | indict | |
#81532 | consign | |
#85968 | institutionalize | |
#86407 | agitate | |
#112040 | incriminate | |
#230878 | institutionalise | |
#297459 | arraign | |
#307476 | criminate |
How to use accuse in a sentence?
If they want to baselessly accuse China, they better be prepared to accept the counterattack from China.
Whatever you think of Matt Gaetz, whatever you’ve heard, it’s pretty simple. If a law enforcement agency and Justice Department accuse you of a crime, they have to prove it, they do n’t just get to shut you up by smearing you... they have to take you to a court and show that you are guilty. If you are n’t really doing that, you are n’t a law enforcement agency, they are more like a secret police.
It’s hard to accuse me of not doing things, i feel a responsibility to now be able to take what I did, that type of approach in the AG’s office and show that government can work.
It's just irresponsible to publicly accuse someone of felony crimes before the investigation is complete.
I recognize how serious it is to accuse someone, either expressly or implicitly, of racism, i do not believe Tom Wine is a racist.
Translations for accuse
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- اِتَّهَمَ, اتهمArabic
- абвінавачваць, абвінаваціцьBelarusian
- обвинявамBulgarian
- acusarCatalan, Valencian
- obviňovat, obvinitCzech
- beschuldigenGerman
- akuziEsperanto
- acusar, denunciarSpanish
- syyttääFinnish
- accuserFrench
- cuir às lethScottish Gaelic
- acusarGalician
- accusarInterlingua
- menuduh, tuduhIndonesian
- akuzarIdo
- accusareItalian
- 問う, 着せるJapanese
- დაბრალებაGeorgian
- accusareLatin
- apkaltinti, kaltintiLithuanian
- whakapaeMāori
- beschuldigenDutch
- skylde, skuldeNorwegian Nynorsk
- beskyldeNorwegian
- oskarżać, oskarżyćPolish
- acusarPortuguese
- обвинять, винить, обвинитьRussian
- okriviti, optužitiSerbo-Croatian
- obtožitiSlovene
- anklagaSwedish
- suçlamakTurkish
- звинуватити, звинувачуватиUkrainian
- 控Chinese
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