acusar

From Latin accūsāre.

acusar (first-person singular indicative present acuso, past participle acusáu)

1. (transitive) to accuse (attribute blame to someone)

Learned borrowing from Latin accūsāre. First attested in the 13th century.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.kuˈza]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.kuˈzaɾ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: a‧cu‧sar

acusar (first-person singular present acuso, first-person singular preterite acusí, past participle acusat)

1. (transitive) to accuse (to point out as guilty)
2. (reflexive) to be accused
3. (transitive) to show (to give an indication of)
4. (transitive) to emphasize, to highlight

   Synonym: ressaltar

5. (transitive, law) to prosecute (to take criminal action)
6. (transitive, card games) to call (to declare possession of certain cards)

• “acusar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “acusar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “acusar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “acusar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• accusar (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese acusar, from Latin accūsāre.

• Audio (Brazil):

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• Hyphenation: a‧cu‧sar

acusar (first-person singular present acuso, first-person singular preterite acusei, past participle acusado)

1. to accuse
   • 2008, Flavia Reisswitz, Análise de Sistemas Vol. 3, Clube de Autores, page 10:

     Como uma última precaução, não podemos usar espaços, pois o compilador pode entender como sendo outra váriavel não separada por vírgula e acusará um erro. No lugar do espaço, pode-se usar underline (_).

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Inherited from Old Spanish acusar, from Latin accūsāre. Whether it was inherited or an early borrowing is disputed by some, but it appeared as early as El Cid in Old Spanish and there is no phonological reason to consider it a borrowing.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /akuˈsaɾ/ [a.kuˈsaɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧cu‧sar

acusar (first-person singular present acuso, first-person singular preterite acusé, past participle acusado)

1. (transitive) to accuse, charge, indict

   Synonym: denunciar

   acusar por gran jurado ― to indict

   Le acusaron de homicidio.

   They accused him of manslaughter.

2. (transitive) to criminate
3. (transitive) to arraign
4. (transitive) to prosecute
5. (transitive) to acknowledge (to notify sender of having received)

   acusar recibo ― to acknowledge receipt

6. (reflexive) to confess
7. (also reflexive) to show; to show signs of

   Synonyms: manifestar, revelar

   • 1973, Estudio geológico de la provincia de Alava:

     se acusa una notable influencia continental , aunque con caracteres intermitentes marinos

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   • 2014, Asunción Hernández Fernández, José Ma Martínez García, Marketing sanitario:

     se acusa una notoria escasez de información

     A clear lack of information is shown

   • 2023 March 7, Cristina Galindo, “Los ingresos de la plataforma de ropa Zalando se estancan y anuncia “cientos” de despidos”, in El País‎^[1]:

     La compañía alemana acusa el fin del auge del comercio electrónico y los beneficios se hunden un 92% en 2022[.]

     The German company is facing the end of the e-commerce boom and profits plunge 92% in 2022[.]

8. (colloquial) to snitch, tattle, rat, egg, squeal

   Synonyms: delatar, chivar

• → Cebuano: akusar
• Chavacano: acusa
• → Tagalog: akusa

• “acusar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024