Definition of accusation

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Accusation (n.) The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.

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Calumny :: Calumny (n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction..
Complain :: Complain (v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.
Sweepings :: Sweeping (a.) Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation..
Crimination :: Crimination (n.) The act of accusing; accusation; charge; complaint.
Recriminatory :: Recriminatory (a.) Having the quality of recrimination; retorting accusation; recriminating.
Arraignment :: Arraignment (n.) A calling to an account to faults; accusation.
Calumniation :: Calumniation (n.) False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name..
Acquit :: Acquit (v. t.) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions..
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public..
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor..
Accuse :: Accuse (n.) Accusation.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear..
Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To prove; to establish by evidence; to corroborate or confirm; to be conclusive of; as, to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition..
Accusation :: Accusation (n.) The act of accusing or charging with a crime or with a lighter offense.
Quit :: Quit (a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit..
Recriminate :: Recriminate (v. i.) To return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.
Uncharge :: Uncharge (v. t.) To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit.
Taxation :: Taxation (n.) Charge; accusation.
Evasion :: Evasion (n.) The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding..
Denunciation :: Denunciation (n.) That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.
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