charge
noun
1. an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary
- the battle began with a cavalry charge
Definition categories: act, attack, onrush, onset, onslaught
2. (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- he was arrested on a charge of larceny
Similar word(s): complaint
Definition categories: communication, pleading
3. the price charged for some article or service
- the admission charge
Definition categories: possession, cost
4. 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
Definition categories: phenomenon
5. attention and management implying responsibility for safety
Similar word(s): care, guardianship, tutelage
Definition categories: act, protection
6. a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- his charge was deliver a message
Similar word(s): commission, mission
Definition categories: act, assignment
7. a person committed to your care
- the teacher led her charges across the street
Definition categories: person, dependant, dependent
8. financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- the charges against the estate
Definition categories: possession, liabilities
9. (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge
Similar word(s): cathexis
Definition categories: motive
10. the swift release of a store of affective force
Similar word(s): bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill
Definition categories: feeling, excitement, exhilaration
11. request for payment of a debt
- they submitted their charges at the end of each month
Similar word(s): billing
Definition categories: communication, asking, request
12. a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- the judge's charge to the jury
Similar word(s): commission, direction
Definition categories: communication, bid, bidding, command, dictation
13. an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving
Similar word(s): accusation
Definition categories: communication, assertion, asseveration, averment
14. heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
Similar word(s): bearing
Definition categories: man–made, heraldry
15. a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
- this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains
Similar word(s): burster
Definition categories: man–made, explosive
Sentences with charge as a noun:
- The child was in the nanny's charge.
- The child was a charge of the nanny.
- The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
- There will be a charge of five dollars.
- I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
- Pickett did not die leading his famous charge.
- That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
- to bring a weapon to the charge
verb
1. to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
Definition categories: competition, rush
2. blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- he charged the director with indifference
Similar word(s): accuse
Definition categories: communication
3. demand payment
- Will I get charged for this service?
Similar word(s): bill
Definition categories: possession, account, calculate
4. move quickly and violently
Similar word(s): buck, shoot, tear
Definition categories: motion, hasten, hie, hotfoot, race, rush, speed
5. assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance
Similar word(s): appoint
Definition categories: social
6. file a formal charge against
- The suspect was charged with murdering his wife
Definition categories: communication, accuse, criminate, impeach, incriminate
7. make an accusatory claim
- The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased
Definition categories: communication, claim
8. fill or load to capacity
- charge the wagon with hay
Definition categories: contact, alter, change, modify
9. enter a certain amount as a charge
- he charged me $15
Definition categories: possession, debit
10. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
Similar word(s): commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send
Definition categories: possession, transfer
11. give over to another for care or safekeeping
Similar word(s): consign
Definition categories: possession, commit, confide, entrust, intrust, trust
12. 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?
Definition categories: possession, pay
13. lie down on command, of hunting dogs
Definition categories: motion, lie
14. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks
Similar word(s): agitate, commove, excite, rouse
Definition categories: emotion, disturb, trouble, upset
15. place a heraldic bearing on
- charge all weapons, shields, and banners
Definition categories: creation, paint
16. provide (a device) with something necessary
Similar word(s): load
Definition categories: contact, fill
17. direct into a position for use
- He charged his weapon at me
Definition categories: competition, aim, direct, take, train
18. impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend
Similar word(s): burden, saddle
Definition categories: communication, command, require
19. instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
Definition categories: communication, instruct
20. instruct or command with authority
- The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem
Definition categories: communication, instruct
21. attribute responsibility to
- The tragedy was charged to her inexperience
Similar word(s): blame
Definition categories: cognition, ascribe, assign, attribute, impute
22. set or ask for a certain price
- How much do you charge for lunch?
- This fellow charges $100 for a massage
Definition categories: cognition, determine, set
23. cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- charge a conductor
Definition categories: change, alter, modify
24. energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- I need to charge my car battery
Definition categories: change, furnish, provide, render, supply
25. saturate
- The room was charged with tension and anxiety
Definition categories: change, impregnate, saturate
Sentences with charge as a verb:
- to charge high for goods
- Let's charge this to marketing.
- Can I charge my Amazon purchase to Paypal?
- Can I charge this purchase?
- to charge an architectural member with a moulding
- He charges three roses.
- He charges his shield with three roses or.
- Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
- Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
- He charged the battery overnight.
- Don't forget to charge the drill.
- I charge my phone every night.
- His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.
- The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.