Indict vs. Accuse — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Indict and Accuse
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Indict
(Law) To charge (a party) by indictment.
Accuse
Charge (someone) with an offence or crime
He was accused of murdering his wife's lover
Indict
To accuse of wrongdoing or criticize severely
"[He] managed to indict the country's smug, liberal establishment whose lip service throttled the struggle for civil rights" (Bob Spitz).
Accuse
To charge with a shortcoming or error.
Indict
To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
A book that indicts modern values
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Accuse
To charge formally with a wrongdoing.
Indict
(legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
His former manager was indicted for fraud
Accuse
To make a charge of wrongdoing against another.
Indict
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
Accuse
(transitive) to find fault with, blame, censure
Indict
To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year.
Accuse
To charge with having committed a crime or offence
For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.
Indict
To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to bring an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.
Accuse
(intransitive) to make an accusation against someone
Indict
Accuse formally of a crime
Accuse
(obsolete) Accusation.
Accuse
Accusation.
Accuse
To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms.
Accuse
To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
Their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
Accuse
To betray; to show.
Accuse
Bring an accusation against; level a charge against;
He charged the man with spousal abuse
Accuse
Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against;
He charged me director with indifference
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