Definition of Accuse

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Accuse

Accusation.

To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense

to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.

To betray; to show. [L.]

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Accuse Quotations

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
Cat Stevens

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
J. D. Salinger

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.
Anne Boleyn

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Lord Chesterfield

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Denis Diderot

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
Hugo Chavez

Accuse Translations

accuse in Danish is anklage
accuse in Dutch is beschuldigen, betichten, aanklagen
accuse in French is accusent, accusons, accusez, accuser
accuse in German is anklagen, anklagen, beschuldigen
accuse in Italian is addebitare, caricare, accusare
accuse in Latin is culpo
accuse in Portuguese is culpar, acuse
accuse in Spanish is denunciar, acriminar, acusar

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