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© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Another word for accused

Noun

  1. A person against whom an action is brought

    2. See also:

    law

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Sentence Examples

  • His voice was calm, but his eyes accused her.

  • Had Mary accused him as well?

  • Yup. I saw his face when I accused him of it.

  • He practically accused you of causing the accident!

  • The accused himself would be hot to eliminate his accuser.

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