Accuse: alternatives and connections

To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

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To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.

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To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

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To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

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To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.

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To harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calum…

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To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

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Defect; want; lack; default.

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An orderly succession; a line; a row

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To hinder; to impede; to prevent.

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To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.

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To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.

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A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

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To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.

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To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

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A false tale or report maliciously uttered, tending to injure the reputation of another; the malicious utterance of defamatory reports; the dissemina…

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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

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To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.

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To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before th…

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To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Accusation.

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Accusation.

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The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.

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The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.

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Producing accusations; accusatory.

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Producing accusations; accusatory.

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Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.

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Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel.

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One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

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One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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To accuse of, or charge with, a crime.

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To hinder; to impede; to prevent.

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To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.

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