What does accused mean?
Definitions for accused
əˈkyuzdac·cused
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Princeton's WordNet
accusednoun
a defendant in a criminal proceeding
Wiktionary
accusednoun
The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
accusedadjective
Having been accused; being the target of accusations.
Etymology: * First attested in the 1590's.
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accused
Accused refers to a person or entity who has been charged with a crime or wrongdoing, often within a legal context. They are believed or claimed to be responsible for an illegal or unscrupulous act and are subjected to a legal trial or investigation for the supposed crime.
Webster Dictionary
Accused
of Accuse
Accusedadjective
charged with offense; as, an accused person
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
accused
In a military sense, the designation of one who is arraigned before a military court.
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Rank popularity for the word 'accused' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2627
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Rank popularity for the word 'accused' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4631
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'accused' in Adjectives Frequency: #995
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of accused in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of accused in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of accused in a Sentence
While Travis Price is disappointed by this verdict, Travis Price respects the jury process, our concern is that other citizens don't suffer the same mistreatment that Travis Price endured. We will continue to fight for those who have been wrongly accused or subjected to excessive force and will push back against Rock Hill Police Department and any other who attempts to take advantage of those they are entrusted to protect and serve.
Instead the law entitles an individual who is accused of serious wrongdoing to rebut the allegations without facing defamation claims. we believe that the law provides that when you make a public statement about an individual, it must be truthful.
But then again we don't know if he would have even told the truth about Auschwitz - many of the accused don't, after all.
People are slamming this as fake news, I think it’s a mistake, i will say that fake news and what we did on Friday, that’s what I was being accused of being a part of. I don’t want to sit on a show where I feel like we’re giving fake news or acting irresponsibly.
The accused colluded to violate criminal law. The deal never happened. There was no government-to-government deal, the NACC has resolved to charge former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom and Poom Sarapol, former deputy commerce minister, a total of 21 ministers and private sector employees.
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