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English to English noun
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an impetuous rush toward someone or something |  | Example: the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary
the battle began with a cavalry charge
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(criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | | Example: he was arrested on a charge of larceny
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the price charged for some article or service | | Example: the admission charge
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the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons | | Example: the battery needed a fresh charge
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attention and management implying responsibility for safety | | Example: he is in the care of a bodyguard
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a special assignment that is given to a person or group | | Example: a confidential mission to London
his charge was deliver a message
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a person committed to your care | | Example: the teacher led her charges across the street
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financial liabilities (such as a tax) | | Example: the charges against the estate
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(psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | | Example: Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge
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the swift release of a store of affective force | | Example: they got a great bang out of it
what a boot!
he got a quick rush from injecting heroin
he does it for kicks
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request for payment of a debt | | Example: they submitted their charges at the end of each month
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a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | | Example: the judge's charge to the jury
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an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | | Example: the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving
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heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | | source: wordnet30
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a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | | Example: this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains
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A load or burder laid upon a person or thing. | | source: webster1913 verb
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to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle | | Example: he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork
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blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | | Example: he charged the director with indifference
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demand payment | | Example: Will I get charged for this service?
We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights
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move quickly and violently | | Example: The car tore down the street
He came charging into my office
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assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | | Example: He was appointed deputy manager
She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance
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file a formal charge against | | Example: The suspect was charged with murdering his wife
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make an accusatory claim | | Example: The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased
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fill or load to capacity | | Example: charge the wagon with hay
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enter a certain amount as a charge | | Example: he charged me $15
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cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | | Example: After the second episode, she had to be committed
he was committed to prison
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give over to another for care or safekeeping | | Example: consign your baggage
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pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt | | Example: Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?
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lie down on command, of hunting dogs | | source: wordnet30
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cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | | Example: The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks
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place a heraldic bearing on | | Example: charge all weapons, shields, and banners
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provide (a device) with something necessary | | Example: He loaded his gun carefully
load the camera
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direct into a position for use | | Example: point a gun
He charged his weapon at me
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impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | | Example: He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend
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instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence | | source: wordnet30
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instruct or command with authority | | Example: The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem
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attribute responsibility to | | Example: We blamed the accident on her
The tragedy was charged to her inexperience
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set or ask for a certain price | | Example: How much do you charge for lunch?
This fellow charges $100 for a massage
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cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on | | Example: charge a conductor
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energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge | | Example: I need to charge my car battery
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saturate | | Example: The room was charged with tension and anxiety
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. | | source: webster1913
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To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets. | | source: webster1913
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