charged
chorjd
- v to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- v blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
he charged the director with indifference - v demand payment
Will I get charged for this service? - v move quickly and violently
- v assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance - v file a formal charge against
The suspect was charged with murdering his wife - v make an accusatory claim
The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased - v fill or load to capacity
- v enter a certain amount as a charge
he charged me $15 - v cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- v give over to another for care or safekeeping
- v pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- v lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- v cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks - v place a heraldic bearing on
- v provide (a device) with something necessary
- v direct into a position for use
He charged his weapon at me - v impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend - v instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- v instruct or command with authority
The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem - v attribute responsibility to
The tragedy was charged to her inexperience - v set or ask for a certain price
- v cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- v energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- v saturate
The room was charged with tension and anxiety - a of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge
charged particles
a charged battery - s fraught with great emotion
an atmosphere charged with excitement
an emotionally charged speech - s supplied with carbon dioxide
- s capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy
the highly charged issue of abortion
- The prison lifer who allegedly clubbed serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and another murderer to death was charged with the crimes today, shortly after he said God instructed him to do .
- CIA employee Aldrich Hazen Ames and his wife Maria del Rosario Casas Ames were arrested last week and charged with spying for Russia.
- He was also charged with 51 counts of tax fraud and with running illegal oil deals with Iran during the hostage crisis.