Noun
- 1. charge, attack, onslaught, onset, onrush
- usage: an impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
- 2. charge, complaint, pleading
- usage: (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"
- 3. charge, cost
- usage: the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge"
- 4. charge, electric charge, electrical phenomenon
- usage: the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons; "the battery needed a fresh charge"
- 5. care, charge, tutelage, guardianship, protection
- usage: attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
- 6. mission, charge, commission, assignment, duty assignment
- usage: a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message"
- 7. charge, dependant, dependent
- usage: a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street"
- 8. charge, liabilities
- usage: financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate"
- 9. cathexis, charge, libidinal energy
- usage: (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"
- 10. bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick, exhilaration, excitement
- usage: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
- 11. charge, billing, request, asking
- usage: request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month"
- 12. commission, charge, direction, command, bid, bidding, dictation
- usage: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury"
- 13. accusation, charge, assertion, averment, asseveration
- usage: an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving"
- 14. charge, bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing, heraldry
- usage: heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- 15. charge, burster, bursting charge, explosive charge, explosive
- usage: a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains"
Verb
- 1. charge, bear down, rush
- usage: to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle; "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork"
- 2. charge, accuse
- usage: blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged the director with indifference"
- 3. charge, bill, account, calculate
- usage: demand payment; "Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
- 4. tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck, rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it
- usage: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
- 5. appoint, charge
- usage: assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
- 6. charge, lodge, file, accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate
- usage: file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
- 7. charge, claim
- usage: make an accusatory claim; "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased"
- 8. charge, change, alter, modify
- usage: fill or load to capacity; "charge the wagon with hay"
- 9. charge, debit
- usage: enter a certain amount as a charge; "he charged me $15"
- 10. commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge, transfer
- usage: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- 11. consign, charge, entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit
- usage: give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"
- 12. charge, pay
- usage: pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt; "Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?"
- 13. charge, lie down, lie
- usage: lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- 14. agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up, disturb, upset, trouble
- usage: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
- 15. charge, paint
- usage: place a heraldic bearing on; "charge all weapons, shields, and banners"
- 16. load, charge, fill, fill up, make full
- usage: provide (a device) with something necessary; "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera"
- 17. charge, level, point, aim, take, train, take aim, direct
- usage: direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"
- 18. charge, saddle, burden, command, require
- usage: impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
- 19. charge, instruct
- usage: instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- 20. charge, instruct
- usage: instruct or command with authority; "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
- 21. blame, charge, impute, ascribe, assign, attribute
- usage: attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
- 22. charge, determine, set
- usage: set or ask for a certain price; "How much do you charge for lunch?"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
- 23. charge, change, alter, modify
- usage: cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on; "charge a conductor"
- 24. charge, supply, provide, render, furnish
- usage: energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to charge my car battery"
- 25. charge, impregnate, saturate
- usage: saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"
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