Accused vs Accuses - What's the difference?
accused | accuses |
(accuse)
(legal) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
Having been accused; being the target of accusations.
* 1883 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, Landmarks of Recent History, 1770-1883 , Walter Smith (publisher),
* 1891 , Charles Grant Robertson, Caesar Borgia: The Stanhope Essay for 1891 , B.H. Blackwell,
* 2007 , Patricia Love and Steven Stosny, How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking about It: Finding Love Beyond Words , Random House, ISBN 9780767923170,
(accuse)
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To find fault with, to blame, to censure.
* (rfdate) (Epistle to the Romans) 2:15,
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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 accused and accuses
is that accused is (accuse) while accuses is .As a noun accused
is (legal) the person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.As an adjective accused
is having been accused; being the target of accusations.accused
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(accused)Usage notes
* (noun) Preceded by the word the .Adjective
(en adjective)pages 11–12:
- This power chiefly fell to the queen, and she was more accused than ever of too much leaning towards her own country;
pages 8–9:
- Naples had an almost stronger preference for the interposition of Spain, while the great republic of Venice in the eyes of Italy stood accused of aspiring to bring the whole peninsula under its sway,
page 188:
- If she felt unimportant, you showed her that she was important to you. If she felt accused , you reassured her. If she felt guilty, you helped her feel better.
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*accuses
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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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