Accurses vs Accuses - What's the difference?
accurses | accuses |
(accurse)
To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
:* And the city shall be accursed - Joshua 6:17
:* Thro' you, my life will be accurst . -
(accuse)
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To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
* (rfdate) (Epistle to the Romans) 2:15,
* (rfdate) ,
To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
* (rfdate) (Acts of the Apostles) 24:13,
To make an accusation against someone.
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As verbs the difference between accurses and accuses
is that accurses is third-person singular of accurse while accuses is third-person singular of accuse.accurses
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(accus)- Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
- We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
- Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
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