accuseとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

First attested around 1300. From Middle English acusen, from Old French acuser, from Latin accūsō (“to call to account, accuse”), from ad (“to”) + causa (“cause, lawsuit, reason”). Akin to cause. Displaced native English bewray.

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: əkyo͞ozʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈkjuːz/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈkjuz/
  • 韻: -uːz
  • ハイフネーション: ac‧cuse

動詞

accuse (三人称単数 現在形 accuses, 現在分詞 accusing, 過去形および過去分詞形 accused)

1. (transitive) to find fault with, blame, censure
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Romans 2:15:

     […] and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.

   • 1849 February 2, Lord Palmerston, The Address in Answer to the Speech—Adjourned Debate, House of Commons; republished as Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, volume 102, third series, 1849, page 216:

     We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms when their differences might have involved the Powers of Europe in contention.

2. (transitive, law, followed by "of") to charge with having committed a crime or offence
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 24:13:

     Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.

   For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.

   Synonyms: charge, indict, impeach, arraign

3. (intransitive) to make an accusation against someone
   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

   Synonyms: blame, censure, reproach, criminate

使用する際の注意点

• (legal): When used this way accused is followed by the word of.

関連する語

名詞

accuse (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Accusation.
   • c. 1596–1599, Shakespeare, William, Henry IV, Part 2, act 3, scene 1, lines 158–160:

     And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, / Whose overweening arm I have plucked back, / By false accuse doth level at my life.