Reverse Dictionary: ACCUSE

ADJECTIVES
► ACCUSANT accusing → 1611 obs.  
► ACCUSATIVE pert. to accusation; accusatory → 1400 obs.
► ACCUSATORIAL characterized by accusation; accusing, reproachful → 1788 
► ACCUSIVE accusatory → 1861 
► CRIMINATE accused; charged with a crime → 1591 obs.
► CRIMINATIVE accusatory; charging someone with a crime or grave offense; incriminating → 1734 
► CRIMINATORY accusatory; incriminating → 1576 
► CRIMINOSE accusatory, reproachful, defamatory; ready to blame or accuse → 1475 obs.
► CRIMINOUS accusatory, reproachful; defamatory → 1485 obs.
► IMPUTATIVE involved in accusing; given to making imputations → 1824 
► UP ON ONE standing accused, on a charge; said of a police officer → 1974 UK sl. 


NOUNS
► ACCRIMINATION accusation of crime → 1655 obs.
► ACCUSAL an accusation → 1594 
► ACCUSE an accusing or charging with crime; charge, accusation → 1593 obs.
► ACCUSEMENT an accusing or charging with an offense; an accusing; an accusation, a charge → 1374 obs.  
► ACOUPEMENT accusation → 1300 obs.
► ASPERSION false accusation or report; slander, slur → 1596 
► ATTENDURE an accusation → 1623 obs.
► BAWL-OUT an accusation, a criticism, a scolding → 1915 US sl.  
► CRIMINATION severe accusation or censure; a charging with a crime or grave offense → 1534 obs.
► CUSING an accusing; an accusation → 1488 Sc. obs.  
► DELATION an accusation → 1792 Sc.  
► HUMBLE a false criminal accusation or charge → 1940 US sl.  
► IMPOSITION accusation, imputation, charge → 1611 obs.  
► IMPUTATION an accusation, charge, or a veiled criticism → 1586 
► IMPUTE an accusation, charge → 1649 obs.
► INCUSATION accusation, blaming → 1623 
► MUD-SLINGING the use of accusations and criticisms, esp. unjust ones, to damage the reputation of an opponent → 1858 
► ONSAW an accusation; a charge against a person ​​​​​​→ 1000 obs.
► RECRIMINATIONS accusations of a bitter, mutual kind → 1604 
► SYCOPHANTRY calumnious accusation; talebearing; the trade or occupation of an informer → 1677 obs.
► TAINTURE accusation, charge → 1621 obs.  


NOUNS – PERSON
► ACCUSANT an accuser → 1611 
► ACCUSATOR an accuser ​→ 1382 obs. 
► ACCUSATRIX a female accuser ​→ 1655 obs.
► ACCUSERESS a female who accuses → 1867 obs. (Bk.)
► ACCUSER-GENERAL a chief accuser or prosecutor ​→ 1770 
► ACCUSOR an accuser → 1340 obs.  
► CRIMINATOR an accuser; a person who defames someone → 1425 obs.
► CUSER an accuser ​→ 1589 obs.  
► DELATOR an accuser, an informer → 1616 Sc. 
► SUGGESTER a person who accuses, or brings a charge against another → 1450 obs.  
► SYCOPHANT a malicious accuser, an informer; a calumniator, a slanderer → 1548 obs.
► TAGGY an accuser; a hostile witness → 1850 UK criminals’ sl. 
► TAINTOR an accuser; a person who brings legal evidence against another for conviction of some crime → 1451 obs. 
► TAXER a person who accuses, finds fault, or censures → 1601 obs. 


VERBS
► ACCRIMINATE to accuse of a crime → 1655 obs.
► ACOUP ► ACOUPE to accuse → 1297 obs. 
► ADITE to accuse, to indict, to condemn → 1325 obs.  
► ADWITE to accuse, to reproach → 1430 obs. 
► BACKDOOR to accuse; to inform → 1960 sl.  
► BECALL to accuse of → 1250 obs.  
► BECLEPE to accuse, to indict; to complain against → 1030 obs. 
► BECRY to accuse, to cry at → 1440 obs. 
► BEGREDE to accuse, to reproach;  to cry out against; to upbraid → 1200 obs. 
► BESPEAK to accuse; to speak against; to charge; to oppose → 1000 obs.  
► BEWRAY to accuse, to malign, to speak evil of → 1330 obs.  
► BUCKET to criticize or make scandalous accusations about someone → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BUM-RAP to accuse someone of something falsely → 20C 
► CALUMNIATE to accuse falsely and maliciously → 1554 
► CAST IN ONE’S DISH to accuse of, to object to somethng in a person → M16 Brit. colloq. 
► CAST THE FIRST STONE to be first to accuse or criticize, though not oneself blameless → 1999 (Bk.)
► CHUSE to reprehend; to find fault; to accuse → 1880 (Bk.)
► CRIMINATE to accuse of or charge with a crime; to denounce → 1646 
► DECRIMINATE to accuse, to denounce as a criminal → 1670 obs.
► DING IN SOMEONE’S TEETH to accuse, to bring up old offenses, to charge → 1897 Eng. dial. 
► EMPTY THE BUCKET ON ► TIP THE BUCKET ON to criticize strongly; to make scandalous accusations or revelations about someone → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► GAB to accuse, to reproach ​→ 1200 obs. 
► IMPUGN to accuse, to find fault with → 1377 
► IMPUTE to accuse of, to charge with ​→ 1596 
► INCULP to accuse, to find fault with; to blame → 1612 obs.  
► LAY A TRIP to criticize or accuse someone of something → 1999 African-American sl.
► LAY IN ONE’S DISH to accuse of, to object to something in a person ​→ M16 Brit. colloq. 
► LEDGE UPON to accuse → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► MURMUR to accuse; to criticize the actions of a person → 1424 Sc.
► POINT THE BONE AT to accuse, to blame, to condemn a person → 1923 Aust. colloq. 
► POINT THE FINGER to accuse or vilify ​→ 1829 Amer. sl.  
► RAP to stand accused, to appear guilty → M19 UK criminals’ sl.  
► REDARGUE to accuse, to blame → 1768 Sc.  
► REPUDIATE to deny or reject an accusation or claim → 1722 
► SPITBALL to accuse; to taunt → 20C US sl.
► SYCOPHANTIZE to utter malicious accusations; to slander, to calumniate → 1636 obs.
► TAG to accuse, to blame ​→ 1950 sl. 
► TAINT to accuse of crime or dishonour → 1619 obs.