| 释义 |
accused, ppl. a.|əˈkjuːzd|
[f. accuse v. + -ed.]
Charged with a crime or fault. Commonly used subst., as the accused: he or she who is accused in a court of justice, the prisoner at the bar.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. i. 17 And frowning brow to brow, our selues will heare Th' accuser, and the accused. 1728Pope Dunc. iv. 420 Th' accus'd stood forth, and thus address'd the Queen. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 521 He and he alone..could save the accused from the gallows. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. II. vii. 144 Eustace and the other accused persons should not be given up. |