accuse
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accuse
- /əˈkjuːz/ UK
- /əˈkjuz/ US
Rhymes with -uːz
Where it comes from
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-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
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 and Old English sċyldan.
verb accuses · accusing · accused · accuse
- To find fault with, blame, censure. […] and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
- 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.
- To make an accusation against someone. 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 b
noun
- Accusation. And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, / Whose overweening arm I have plucked back, / By false accuse doth level at my life.
