What does allege mean in English?

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0 to say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof:
- [ + (that) ] The two men allege (that) the police forced them to make false confessions.
- [ + to infinitive ] She is alleged to have been at the centre of an international drug ring.
- [ + that ] It was alleged that Johnson had struck Mr Rahim on the head.
1 to state that something bad is a fact without giving proof:
- School districts are alleging the state has not continued to finance schools adequately.
2 to state that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof:
- It is alleged that he used his influential position to steal thousands of pounds of company profits.

The prosecution alleged that he lured the officer to his death by making an emergency call.
It has been alleged that the minister received a secret payoff from an arms dealer.
The woman alleged rape, but Reeves insisted it was consensual.
Campaigners now have compelling documentary evidence of the human rights abuses that they had been alleging for several years.
The woman alleges that her employers passed her over for promotion because she was pregnant.
His main charge concerns their alleged collusion with non-academic interests to effect acceptable heritage results, politically, economically, (re)presentationally.
Yet despite this affirmative reporting obligation, some critics allege serious rights violations have arisen, which have not prompted reports of incompatibility.
The alleged incoherence thus consists in being committed to holding that creatures are both continuants and non-continuants.