Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To overwhelm; oppress; overburden.

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Examples

  • Charles says that he is accable de demandes, comme de dettes, et avec la reputation d'avoir de l'argent, il ne sait ou donner de la tete.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • Il entreprend de prouver, dans la troisieme partie, que la religion chretienne a eu les effets politiques les plus sinistres et les plus funestes, et que le genre humain lui doit tous les malheurs dont il a ete accable depuis quinze a dix-huit siecles, sans qu'on en puisse encore prevoir la fin.

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • Il entreprend de prouver, dans la troisieme partie, que la religion chretienne a eu les effets politiques les plus sinistres et les plus funestes, et que le genre humain lui doit tous les malheurs dont il a ete accable depuis quinze a dix-huit siecles, sans qu'on en puisse encore prevoir la fin.

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

  • Charles says that he is accable de demandes, comme de dettes, et avec la reputation d'avoir de l'argent, il ne sait ou donner de la tete.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • But I confess that I am somewhat accable, by all that has befallen us.

    Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • But I confess that I am somewhat accable, by all that has befallen us.

    Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

  • Je vais bien, mais je suis accable de travaux et pourtant je veux partir bientot; je finirai a la maison.

    Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896

  • But I confess that I am somewhat accable, by all that has befallen us.

    Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Tuilleries, for a brief relaxation -- and me voila partout accable with my good fortune.

    Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "He tells me," said I, gravely, "that he is quite accable with his bonnes fortunes -- possibly he flatters himself that even you are not perfectly inaccessible to his addresses."

    Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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