What does accused mean?

Definitions for accused
əˈkyuzdac·cused

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. accusednoun

    a defendant in a criminal proceeding

Wiktionary

  1. accusednoun

    The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.

  2. accusedadjective

    Having been accused; being the target of accusations.

  3. Etymology: * First attested in the 1590's.

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  1. 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

  1. Accused

    of Accuse

  2. Accusedadjective

    charged with offense; as, an accused person

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. accused

    In a military sense, the designation of one who is arraigned before a military court.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'accused' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2627

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'accused' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4631

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'accused' in Adjectives Frequency: #995

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of accused in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of accused in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of accused in a Sentence

  1. Justin Bamberg:

    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.

  2. Joseph Cammarata:

    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.

  3. Israel Loewenstein:

    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.

  4. Joy Behar:

    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.

  5. Wicha Mahakun:

    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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