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"
Adjective
- 1. charged (vs. uncharged), hot, live, negative, electronegative, negatively charged, positive, electropositive, positively charged, polar
- usage: of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge; "charged particles"; "a charged battery"
- 2. charged, supercharged, emotional (vs. unemotional)
- usage: fraught with great emotion; "an atmosphere charged with excitement"; "an emotionally charged speech"
- 3. aerated, charged, effervescent (vs. noneffervescent)
- usage: supplied with carbon dioxide
- 4. charged, provocative (vs. unprovocative)
- usage: capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy; "the highly charged issue of abortion"
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