Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense.

2. (v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.

3. (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.

4. (v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]