Accuse

Ac·cuse

Accuse

n.
  1. Accusation. [Obs.]

Accuse

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Accused; p. pr. & vb. n. Accusing

  1. To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense (Law)
    Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
    — Acts xxiv. 13.
    We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
  2. To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
    Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
    — Rom. ii. 15.
  3. To betray; to show. [R.]