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accused in English:

1. someone charged with a crime the defendant in a criminal proceeding someone charged with a crime the defendant in a criminal proceeding



English word "accused"(someone charged with a crime the defendant in a criminal proceeding) occurs in sets:

Legal English

2. me of committing a crime



3. convicted


But I don't think I'll be convicted.
He was convicted on trumped up charges.
Tom has been convicted of drunken driving twice in the last four years.
The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence.
The murderer was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Tom was convicted and sentenced to death.
No one has been convicted of the crime yet.
I never for a moment imagined that Tom would be convicted.
Having been convicted of murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
He convicted of robbery.
convicted of drug trafficking
her former boyfriend was convicted of assaulting her
According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones.

English word "accused"(convicted) occurs in sets:

LAW-12 angry man

4. accusation


What's the accusation against him?
He denied the accusation.
Bill Clinton denied the accusation.
make an accusation (against somebody)
I don't want to make an accusation until I have some proof. He made a number of accusations against his former colleagues.
The accusation that China is exercising
No one believed her wild accusations against her husband.
A number of serious accusations have been made against her.
You won't get anywhere throwing around baseless accusations.
You can't just make wild accusations like that!
denied all accusation of money loundering
He is under a false accusation.

5. me of doing



English word "accused"(me of doing) occurs in sets:

special introductory verbs

6. a person or a group of people who are charged with or on trial for a crime



7. accuser



8. the person who is on trial in court



9. someone of



10. of


Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
How nice of you!
Of course.
It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.
A box of chocolates
We were sitting peacefully at dinner, when all of a sudden the lights went out.
To the best of my knowledge, this chemical will prevent germs from breeding.
Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Genes consist of a specific sequence of DNA.
Carpentry and bricklaying are examples of manual labor.
By the age of seven, he had already made his own bow and arrows.
When we started out in 2009, I was convinced that our store would become one of the best in the city.
I'm very particular about what kind of people I invite into my house.
If a man wants to learn to sound like a native speaker of Japanese, he shouldn't only learn Japanese from women. The reverse is true for a woman.
Something you should know about me is that I half of what I say is meaningless.