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Accusation: Definition and part of speech

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Accusation

  1. n. That of which one is accused; the charge of an offense or crime, or the declaration containing the charge.
  2. n. The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accusative: Definition and part of speech

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Accusative

  1. n. The accusative case.
  2. a. Producing accusations; accusatory.
  3. a. Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accuse: Definition and part of speech

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Accuse

  1. n. Accusation.
  2. v. t. To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
  3. v. t. to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; — with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
  4. v. t. To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.