• (noun) First attested in the 1590's.
• From accuse + -ed

• (America) IPA: /ə.ˈkjuzd/

1. Simple past tense and past participle of accuse

accused (plural accused)

1. (legal) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.

   Synonyms: accusee

   Antonyms: accuser

• French: accusé, accusée
• German: Angeklagter, Angeklagte, Beschuldigter, Beschuldigte
• Italian: accusato
• Portuguese: acusado
• Russian: обвиня́емый
• Spanish: acusado

accused

1. Having been accused; being the target of accusations.
   • 1883, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Landmarks of Recent History, 1770-1883‎, Walter Smith, pages 11–12:

     This power chiefly fell to the queen, and she was more accused than ever of too much leaning towards her own country; […]

   • 1891, Charles Grant Robertson, Caesar Borgia: The Stanhope Essay for 1891, B.H. Blackwell, pages 8–9 ↗:

     Naples had an almost stronger preference for the interposition of Spain, while the great republic of Venice in the eyes of Italy stood accused of aspiring to bring the whole peninsula under its sway, […]

• German: angeklagt
• Italian: accusato
• Portuguese: acusado
• Russian: обвиня́емый
• Spanish: acusado