accuse
/əˈkjuz/ v [T]Definition
› to say that someone is responsible for a crime or for having done something wrong: He was accused of failing to pay his taxes. She accused me of lying. accusation /ˌæk·jəˈzeɪ·ʃən/ n [C] › He denied the accusation, saying he was innocent.
(Definition of accuse v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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