COUNTERPLEADING Antonyms

• charging or suggestive of guilt or blame

• call before a court to answer an indictment

• accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy

• an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed

• a reproach for some lapse or misdeed

• expletives used informally as intensifiers

• put or pin the blame on

• harass with constant criticism

• attribute responsibility to

• an impetuous rush toward someone or something

• (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense

• the price charged for some article or service

• the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons

• attention and management implying responsibility for safety

• a special assignment that is given to a person or group

• a person committed to your care

• financial liabilities (such as a tax)

• (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object

• the swift release of a store of affective force

• request for payment of a debt

• a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something

• an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence

• heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

• a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time

• to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle

• blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against

• demand payment

• move quickly and violently

• assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to

• file a formal charge against

• make an accusatory claim

• fill or load to capacity

• enter a certain amount as a charge

• cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

• give over to another for care or safekeeping

• pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt

• lie down on command, of hunting dogs

• cause to be agitated, excited, or roused

• place a heraldic bearing on

• provide (a device) with something necessary

• direct into a position for use

• impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

• instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence

• instruct or command with authority

• attribute responsibility to

• set or ask for a certain price

• cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on

• energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge

• saturate

• a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison

• a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense

• find or declare guilty

• challenge the honesty or veracity of

• charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office

• bring an accusation against; level a charge against

• accuse formally of a crime

• conduct a prosecution in a court of law

• bring a criminal action against (in a trial)

• carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in

• French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against