accusing
Meaning of accusing
adjective
- (of an expression, gesture, or tone of voice) indicating a belief in someone's guilt or culpability.
she stared at him with accusing eyes
- charge (someone) with an offence or crime.
he was accused of murdering his wife's lover
Middle English: from Old French acuser, from Latin accusare ‘call to account’, from ad- ‘towards’ + causa ‘reason, motive, lawsuit’.
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Hyphenation of accusing
ac-cus-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- accusing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
accusing synonyms
Meaning accusative:
accusative, accusatory, accusive
Meaning serve (someone) with a summons:
Meaning refer to (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work:
Meaning accuse or blame:
accusing antonyms
Meaning declare (someone) free from guilt, obligation, or punishment:
Meaning remove an obstruction or unwanted item or items from:
Meaning (of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing:
Words that rhyme with accusing
sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing
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