Associations to the word «Accused»

Wiktionary

ACCUSED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of accuse
ACCUSED, noun. (legal) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.
ACCUSED, adjective. Having been accused; being the target of accusations.

Dictionary definition

ACCUSED, noun. A defendant in a criminal proceeding.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne