Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to accuse
Participle: accused
Gerund: accusing
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | accuse |
| you | accuse |
| he;she;it | accuses |
| we | accuse |
| you | accuse |
| they | accuse |
Perfect
| I | have accused |
| you | have accused |
| he;she;it | has accused |
| we | have accused |
| you | have accused |
| they | have accused |
Past
| I | accused |
| you | accused |
| he;she;it | accused |
| we | accused |
| you | accused |
| they | accused |
Pluperfect
| I | had accused |
| you | had accused |
| he;she;it | had accused |
| we | had accused |
| you | had accused |
| they | had accused |
Future
| I | will accuse |
| you | will accuse |
| he;she;it | will accuse |
| we | will accuse |
| you | will accuse |
| they | will accuse |
Future Perfect
| I | will have accused |
| you | will have accused |
| he;she;it | will have accused |
| we | will have accused |
| you | will have accused |
| they | will have accused |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | accuse |
| you | accuse |
| he;she;it | accuse |
| we | accuse |
| you | accuse |
| they | accuse |
Perfect
| I | have accused |
| you | have accused |
| he;she;it | have accused |
| we | have accused |
| you | have accused |
| they | have accused |
Imperfect
| I | accused |
| you | accused |
| he;she;it | accused |
| we | accused |
| you | accused |
| they | accused |
Pluperfect
| I | had accused |
| you | had accused |
| he;she;it | had accused |
| we | had accused |
| you | had accused |
| they | had accused |
Conditional
Present
| I | would accuse |
| you | would accuse |
| he;she;it | would accuse |
| we | would accuse |
| you | would accuse |
| they | would accuse |
Perfect
| I | would have accused |
| you | would have accused |
| he;she;it | would have accused |
| we | would have accused |
| you | would have accused |
| they | would have accused |
Imperative
| you | accuse |
| we | Let's accuse |
| you | accuse |
Verbs conjugated like 'accuse'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'accuse'
accurse,
abuse,
accede,
access,
accite,
accost,
accrue,
accumb,
accurise,
acrase,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- charge
- impute, arraign, criminate, implicate, tax, inculpate, impeach, incriminate
- blame
- denounce, reprehend, reproach, charge, upbraid, inculpate, involve
Antonyms
- declare or find not guilty
- blame, charge, condemn, convict, impeach, incriminate, inculpate, indict, acquit
- blame
- praise, credit, honor, commend
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1297, from O.Fr.
acuser, from L.
accusare "to call to account," from
ad- "against" +
causari "give as a cause or motive," from
causa "reason."
Accusatory is first attested 1601, from L.
accusatorius.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
4. Proto-Italic *ad
5. Proto-Italic *ad-
6. Latin ad-
7. Proto-Italic *kaussā
8. Old Latin caussa
9. Latin causa
10. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
11. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
12. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
13. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
14. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
15. Proto-Italic *-ājō
16. Proto-Italic *-āō
17. Latin -ō
18. Latin accūsārelbor.
19. Old French acuserbor.
20. Middle English acusen
21. English accuse
22. 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 and Old English sċyldan. See: Old French '
acuser', Latin '
accūsō'.
Verbs referencing "accuse"
Ido akuzar.
Sample Sentences
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[…] and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 2:15:]
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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. [1849 February 2, Lord Palmerston, The Address in Answer to the Speech—Adjourned Debate, House of Commons; republished as Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, volume 102, third series, 1849, page 216:]
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For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.
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Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:13:]
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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. [1981, Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers, volume II, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page xxxix:]
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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. [2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:]