Thesaurus: accusative

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1. a. Producing accusations; accusatory.
2. a. Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.
3. n. The accusative case.
4. adj. containing or expressing accusation
5. adj. serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
6. n. the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
7. 1. Producing accusations; accusatory. "This hath been a very accusative age." Sir E. Dering. 2. (Gram.) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English. The accusative case.
8. Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greeknouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action orinfluence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object ofmotion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds tothe objective case in English.
9. n. the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb s. containing or expressing accusation