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Definition of accuser : One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

Synonyms:

delator, district attorney, rat, informer, informant, law, complainant, litigant, objector, suitor, claimant, opponent, government witness, stool pigeon, opposer, judicial party, indicter, fink, petitioner, state witness, attack, denouncer, praise, plaintiff, adversary, libelant, court

Usage examples:

• His accuser had called for death. - "Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors", James Freeman Clarke.
• There was a law that the party accused might appoint a person to keep watch upon his accuser, that he might know fairly what means he took in preparing the accusation. - "Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans", Clough, Arthur Hugh.
• He, however, appeared before the Assembly as her accuser, and charged her with carrying on a secret correspondence with persons of influence at home and abroad, to protect the king. - "Madame Roland, Makers of History", John S. C. Abbott.