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accuse

verb
/əˈkjuːz/UK/əˈkjuz/US

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.

  1. derived from accūsō
  2. derived from acuser
  3. inherited from acusen

Definitions

  1. To find fault with, blame, censure.

    • […] 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.

  2. 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.
    • Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.

  3. To make an accusation against someone.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Accusation.

      • And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, / Whose overweening arm I have plucked back, / By false accuse doth level at my life.

The neighborhood

Derived

accusal, accusee, accusement, accusive, accusor, counteraccuse, hackusate, misaccuse, reaccuse

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at accuse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01accuse02offence03standard04alone05beliefs06belief07evidence08trial09accused

A definitional loop anchored at accuse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at accuse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA