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accuser

[ uh-kyoo-zer ]

noun

  1. a person who accuses, especially in a court of law:

    a trial in which the accuser and accused may freely speak.



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Other Words From

  • self-ac·cuser noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of accuser1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; accuse, -er 1

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Example Sentences

His accuser was smeared and demeaned, and a star football player was allowed to keep on playing.

Next came another new Cosby accuser, a black woman named “Chelan.”

An Army National Guard colonel charged with knowingly exposing a woman to HIV faced his accuser in a military courtroom on Monday.

The police made the accuser write an apology to Kromah, but he says it is not enough.

Later on, the release refers to the accuser as the “sexual aggressor” with “not one, but two young men early last Sunday morning.”

One other illustration of this keen childish dialectic when face to face with the accuser deserves to be touched on.

Any exaggeration into which a feeling of indignation happens to betray the accuser is instantly pounced upon.

As public accuser, he caused the death of immense numbers, of all ages and either sex.

Planner looked at the letter, read it—then turned his eyes mildly and reproachfully upon his accuser.

She was summoned to present herself before the Convention, to confront her accuser, and defend herself from the scaffold.

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