0 present participle of allege
1 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.
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.
Cultural competency is an antidote to both cultural imperialism (alleging superiority of some cultures over others) and moral relativism (asserting no universal moral standard).
He harmonizes the apparently contradictory explanations and salvages his simile by alleging that both explanations are correct and can coexist.
It should be kept in mind that this is an inquiry, not a proceeding alleging wrongdoing of any sort.
