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Webster 1913 Edition
Accuser
Ac-cus′er
,Noun.
[OE.
acuser
, accusour
; cf. OF. acuseor
, fr. L. accusator
, fr. accusare
.] One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
Webster 1828 Edition
Accuser
ACCU'SER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
accuser
accuser
English
Alternative forms
Noun
accuser (plural accusers)
- One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
Translations
one who accuses
References
- accuser in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin accūsāre, present active infinitive of accūsō.
Pronunciation
Verb
accuser
- (transitive) to accuse
- (transitive) to find fault with.
- Emma portait sa lettre au bout du jardin... Rodolphe venait l'y chercher et en plaçait une autre, qu'elle accusait toujours d'être trop courte. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857) p. 180.
- Emma took her letter to the end of the garden... Rodolphe came and fetched it and put another in its place, which she always found fault with for being too short.
Conjugation
Conjugation of accuser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | accuser | avoir accusé | |||||
| gerund | en accusant | en ayant accusé | |||||
| present participle | accusant /a.ky.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | accusé /a.ky.ze/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | accuse /a.kyz/ |
accuses /a.kyz/ |
accuse /a.kyz/ |
accusons /a.ky.zɔ̃/ |
accusez /a.ky.ze/ |
accusent /a.kyz/ |
| imperfect | accusais /a.ky.zɛ/ |
accusais /a.ky.zɛ/ |
accusait /a.ky.zɛ/ |
accusions /a.ky.zjɔ̃/ |
accusiez /a.ky.zje/ |
accusaient /a.ky.zɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | accusai /a.ky.ze/ |
accusas /a.ky.za/ |
accusa /a.ky.za/ |
accusâmes /a.ky.zam/ |
accusâtes /a.ky.zat/ |
accusèrent /a.ky.zɛʁ/ |
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| future | accuserai /a.kyz.ʁe/ |
accuseras /a.kyz.ʁa/ |
accusera /a.kyz.ʁa/ |
accuserons /a.kyz.ʁɔ̃/ |
accuserez /a.kyz.ʁe/ |
accuseront /a.kyz.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | accuserais /a.kyz.ʁɛ/ |
accuserais /a.kyz.ʁɛ/ |
accuserait /a.kyz.ʁɛ/ |
accuserions /a.ky.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
accuseriez /a.ky.zə.ʁje/ |
accuseraient /a.kyz.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | accuse /a.kyz/ |
accuses /a.kyz/ |
accuse /a.kyz/ |
accusions /a.ky.zjɔ̃/ |
accusiez /a.ky.zje/ |
accusent /a.kyz/ |
| imperfect1 |
accusasse /a.ky.zas/ |
accusasses /a.ky.zas/ |
accusât /a.ky.za/ |
accusassions /a.ky.za.sjɔ̃/ |
accusassiez /a.ky.za.sje/ |
accusassent /a.ky.zas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | accuse /a.kyz/ |
— | accusons /a.ky.zɔ̃/ |
accusez /a.ky.ze/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Middle French
Etymology
Verb
accuser
- to accuse
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of accuser
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | accuser | avoir accusé | |||||
| gerund | en accusant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | accusant | ||||||
| past participle | accusé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | accuse | accuses | accuse | accusons | accusez | accusent |
| imperfect | accusois, accusoys | accusois, accusoys | accusoit, accusoyt | accusions, accusyons | accusiez, accusyez | accusoient, accusoyent | |
| past historic | accusa | accusas | accusa | accusasmes | accusastes | accuserent | |
| future | accuserai, accuseray | accuseras | accusera | accuserons | accuserez | accuseront | |
| conditional | accuserois, accuseroys | accuserois, accuseroys | accuseroit, accuseroyt | accuserions, accuseryons | accuseriez, accuseryez | accuseroient, accuseroyent | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | accuse | accuses | accuse | accusons | accusez | accusent |
| imperfect | accusasse | accusasses | accusast | accusassions | accusassiez | accusassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | accuse | — | accusons | accusez | — | ||