Accused vs Sued - What's the difference?
accused | sued |
(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,
(sue)
To follow.
* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
(label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
(label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
To clean (the beak, etc.).
To leave high and dry on shore.
To court.
As verbs the difference between accused and sued
is that accused is past tense of accuse while sued is past tense of sue.As a noun accused
is 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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*sued
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* *sue
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- And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
- though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.