accuse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Italic *kaussā
Old Latin caussa
Latin causa
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin accūsārelbor.
Old French acuserbor.
Middle English acusen
English accuse
First attested around 1300. From Middle English acusen, from Old French acuser, from Latin accūsō (“to call to account, accuse”), from ad (“to”) + causa (“cause, lawsuit, reason”). Akin to cause. Displaced native English bewray.
Inflected forms:
form: accuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: accuse
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: accuse
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: accused
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: accuse
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: accusest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: accused
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: accusedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: accuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accuseth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: accused
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: accuse
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: accused
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: accuse
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: accused
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: accuse
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: accusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To find fault with, blame, censure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms when their differences might have involved the Powers of Europe in contention.
gloss: To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
Ting Ling had disappeared from public life in 1958. She was accused of being a "Rightist" and was sent to a farm in Hei-lung-chiang Province in remote northeast China, worked there twelve years raising chickens, was in prison five years (1970-1975), and began to live in a village in Shansi in 1975.
gloss: To make an accusation against someone.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
Related words: accusable
accusation
accusative
accusatory
accuser
excuse
recuse
ruse
Derived words: accusal
accusee
accusement
accusive
accusor
counteraccuse
hackusate
misaccuse
reaccuse
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِتَّهَمَ
roman: ittahama
lang: Asturian
word: acusar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ittiham etmək
lang: Azerbaijani
word: suçlamaq
lang: Belarusian
word: абвінава́чваць
roman: abvinaváčvacʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: абвінава́ціць
roman: abvinavácicʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: обвиня́вам
roman: obvinjávam
lang: Catalan
word: acusar
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎫᎯᏍᏗᎭ
roman: guhisdiha
lang: Cheyenne
word: -ho'é'ėšé'tov
lang: Chickasaw
word: ishtombohli
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 指責 /指责
roman: zhǐzé
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 控告
roman: kònggào
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 譴責 /谴责
roman: qiǎnzé
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 指控
roman: zhǐkòng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 控訴 /控诉
roman: kòngsù
lang: Czech
word: obviňovat
lang: Czech
word: obvinit
lang: Danish
word: beskylde
lang: Danish
word: anklage
lang: Dutch
word: beschuldigen
lang: Dutch
word: aanklagen
lang: Esperanto
word: akuzi
lang: Finnish
word: syyttää
lang: French
word: accuser
lang: West-Frisian
word: beskuldigje
lang: Galician
word: acusar
lang: Georgian
word: დაბრალება
roman: dabraleba
lang: German
word: beschuldigen
lang: German
word: anklagen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌹𐌽𐍉𐌽
roman: fairinōn
lang: Greek
word: κατηγορώ
roman: katigoró
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κατηγορέω
roman: katēgoréō
lang: Hebrew
word: האשים
roman: he'eshím
lang: Hindi
word: आरोप लगाना
roman: ārop lagānā
lang: Hungarian
word: vádol
lang: Hungarian
word: megvádol
lang: Icelandic
word: kæra
lang: Ido
word: akuzar
lang: Indonesian
word: menuduh
lang: Interlingua
word: accusar
lang: Irish
word: coirigh
lang: Italian
word: accusare
lang: Japanese
word: 問う
roman: tou
lang: Japanese
word: 着せる
roman: kiseru
lang: Kituba
word: funda
lang: Kongo
word: funda
lang: Korean
word: 고소하다
roman: gosohada
lang: Latin
word: accūsō
lang: Latin
word: crīminor
lang: Lingala
word: funda
lang: Lithuanian
word: apkaltinti
lang: Lithuanian
word: kaltinti
lang: Macedonian
word: обвинува
roman: obvinuva
lang: Macedonian
word: обвини
roman: obvini
lang: Māori
word: whakapae
lang: Māori
word: whakatuaki
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: beskylde
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: skulde
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: skylde
lang: Old English
word: sacan
lang: Polish
word: oskarżać
lang: Polish
word: oskarżyć
lang: Portuguese
word: acusar
lang: Romanian
word: acuza
lang: Russian
word: вини́ть
roman: vinítʹ
lang: Russian
word: обвиня́ть
roman: obvinjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: обвини́ть
roman: obvinítʹ
lang: Scots
word: wyte
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cuir às leth
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: опту́жити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: окри́вити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: optúžiti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: okríviti
lang: Slovak
word: obviňovať
lang: Slovak
word: obviniť
lang: Slovak
word: obžalovať
lang: Slovene
word: obtožiti
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: do winy dawaś
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: do winy daś
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: wobwinować
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: wobwinić
lang: Spanish
word: acusar
lang: Swedish
word: anklaga
lang: Swedish
word: beskylla
lang: Tagalog
word: magbintang
lang: Tagalog
word: pagbintangan
lang: Turkish
word: suçlamak
lang: Ukrainian
word: звинува́чувати
roman: zvynuváčuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: звинува́тити
roman: zvynuvátyty
lang: Volapük
word: kusadön
lang: Yiddish
word: באַשולדיקן
roman: bashuldikn