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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope