Charged

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Charge \Charge\ (ch[aum]rj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charged}
     (ch[aum]rjd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Charging}.] [OF. chargier, F.
     charger, fr. LL. carricare, fr. L. carrus wagon. Cf. {Cargo},
     {Caricature}, {Cark}, and see {Car}.]
     1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load;
        to fill.


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              A carte that charged was with hay.    --Chaucer.
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              The charging of children's memories with rules.
                                                    --Locke.
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     2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to
        command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to
        urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy
        of a diocese; to charge an agent.
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              Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God.
                                                    --Josh. xxii.
                                                    5.
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              Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
                                                    --Shak.
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     3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
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              When land shall be charged by any lien. --Kent.
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     4. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a
        barrel for apples.
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     5. To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit,
        as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the
        debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.
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     6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
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              No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime
              On native sloth and negligence of time. --Dryden.
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     7. To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person
        or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said
        or done) at the door of.
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              If he did that wrong you charge him with.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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     8. To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or
        machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold
        or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge
        an electrical machine, etc.
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              Their battering cannon charged to the mouths.
                                                    --Shak.
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     9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an
        architectural member with a molding.
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     10. (Her.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses
         or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield
         with three roses or.
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     11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.]
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               To charge me to an answer.           --Shak.
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     12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
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               Charged our main battle's front.     --Shak.
  
     Syn: To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach;
          arraign. See {Accuse}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  charged
       adj 1: of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of
              positive or negative electric charge; "charged
              particles"; "a charged battery" [ant: {uncharged}]
       2: fraught with great emotion; "an atmosphere charged with
          excitement"; "an emotionally charged speech" [syn: {supercharged}]
       3: supplied with carbon dioxide [syn: {aerated}]
       4: capable of producing violent emotion or arousing
          controversy; "the highly charged issue of abortion"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  131 Moby Thesaurus words for "charged":
     accountable, accused, activated, agitating, alleged, arraigned,
     ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed, autoluminescent,
     blamed, breathtaking, burdened, cited, cliff-hanging, climacteric,
     contaminated, credited, critical, crucial, cumbered, decisive,
     denounced, derivable from, derivational, derivative, disquieting,
     distracting, disturbing, due, electric, electrified, emergent,
     encumbered, exciting, exhilarating, exigent, explicable, fraught,
     freighted, full-charged, full-fraught, galvanic, hampered, heady,
     heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling,
     heavy-laden, high-tension, hot, impeached, implicated, impressive,
     impugned, imputable, imputed, in complicity, incriminated,
     inculpated, indicted, infected, inflammatory, intoxicating,
     involved, irradiated, jarring, jolting, kairotic, laden, live,
     loaded, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, oppressed, overburdened,
     overcharged, overcoming, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen,
     overloaded, overmastering, overpowering, overtaxed, overweighted,
     overwhelming, owing, perturbing, piquant, pivotal, poisoned,
     pregnant, provocative, provoking, putative, radiferous,
     radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, ravishing,
     referable, referred to, reproached, saddled, soul-stirring,
     spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking,
     supercharged, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, tasked, taxed,
     telling, thrilling, thrilly, traceable, troubling, under attack,
     under fire, unsettling, upsetting, weighted, weighted down