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Charge   /tʃɑrdʒ/   Listen
Charge

noun
1.
An impetuous rush toward someone or something.  "The battle began with a cavalry charge"
2.
(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense.  Synonym: complaint.
3.
The price charged for some article or service.
4.
The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons.  Synonym: electric charge.
5.
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety.  Synonyms: care, guardianship, tutelage.
6.
A special assignment that is given to a person or group.  Synonyms: commission, mission.  "His charge was deliver a message"
7.
A person committed to your care.
8.
Financial liabilities (such as a tax).
9.
(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object.  Synonym: cathexis.
10.
The swift release of a store of affective force.  Synonyms: bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill.  "What a boot!" , "He got a quick rush from injecting heroin" , "He does it for kicks"
11.
Request for payment of a debt.  Synonym: billing.
12.
A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something.  Synonyms: commission, direction.
13.
An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence.  Synonym: accusation.
14.
Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield.  Synonyms: armorial bearing, bearing, heraldic bearing.
15.
A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.  Synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge.
verb
(past & past part. charged; pres. part. charging)
1.
To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle.  Synonym: bear down.
2.
Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against.  Synonym: accuse.
3.
Demand payment.  Synonym: bill.  "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
4.
Move quickly and violently.  Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear.  "He came charging into my office"
5.
Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.  Synonym: appoint.  "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
6.
File a formal charge against.  Synonyms: file, lodge.
7.
Make an accusatory claim.
8.
Fill or load to capacity.
9.
Enter a certain amount as a charge.
10.
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.  Synonyms: commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send.  "He was committed to prison"
11.
Give over to another for care or safekeeping.  Synonym: consign.
12.
Pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt.
13.
Lie down on command, of hunting dogs.
14.
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.  Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on.
15.
Place a heraldic bearing on.
16.
Provide (a device) with something necessary.  Synonym: load.  "Load the camera"
17.
Direct into a position for use.  Synonyms: level, point.  "He charged his weapon at me"
18.
Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to.  Synonyms: burden, saddle.
19.
Instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
20.
Instruct or command with authority.
21.
Attribute responsibility to.  Synonym: blame.  "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
22.
Set or ask for a certain price.  "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
23.
Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on.
24.
Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge.
25.
Saturate.



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"Charge" Quotes from Famous Books



... for women and children, but it taught submission to the man in the home, and so was a constructive force in the conservation of the family. Teutonic custom was similar to the early Roman. When Teutonic enterprise pushed a new race over the goal of race conflict and took in charge the administration of affairs in Roman society, there was a restoration of the rule of force and so of masculine supremacy. In the lord's castle and the peasant's hut the authority of the man continued unquestioned through the Middle Ages, and the church made monogamous marriage a binding ...
— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe

... of Fitzmaurice, after its discoverer. A long and interesting task now commenced—the examination of the new river, and the process of taking the vessel up as far as possible. After this had been successfully accomplished, Captain Wickharn being unwell, Stokes was put in charge of a boat party to follow the river up as far as possible. Taking the boats as far as practicable, and then forming a land party, they managed to reach a distance of one hundred and forty miles from the sea, and finding the river still of considerable size, and full ...
— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

... used by any, and the anchor button, with the tint that is called navy blue, and which is meant to represent the deep hue of the ocean, with white facings, composed the principal peculiarities of the dress. The person introduced to the reader, whose name was Dutton, and who was simply the officer in charge of the signal-station, had a certain neatness about his well-worn uniform, his linen, and all of his attire, which showed that some person more interested in such matters than one of his habits was likely to be, had the care of his wardrobe. In ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper

... descried coming out from the narrow gorges of the hills, some one ran to Pelopidas, and cried out, "We have fallen into the midst of the enemy!" "Why so," asked he, "more than they into the midst of us?" He at once ordered his cavalry to the front to charge the enemy first, and closed up his infantry, three hundred in number, into a compact body, trusting that wherever he attacked the enemy he should break through, although they outnumbered him. They consisted of two ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume II • Aubrey Stewart & George Long

... that you have made certain discoveries which you may feel it your duty to communicate to the police, and that in this case my arrest on a charge of murder would inevitably follow. Why, in these circumstances, you should give me such ample warning of your intentions I do not understand, unless it is that you are not wholly out of sympathy with me. But whether or not you ...
— The Red House Mystery • A. A. Milne


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