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charge

English

  1. 🔊 an impetuous rush toward someone or something
    “the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary”
  2. 🔊 a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
    “this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains”
  3. 🔊 heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
  4. 🔊 (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
    “he was arrested on a charge of larceny”
  5. 🔊 request for payment of a debt
    “they submitted their charges at the end of each month”
  6. 🔊 a person committed to your care
    “the teacher led her charges across the street”
  7. 🔊 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”
  8. 🔊 the price charged for some article or service
    “the admission charge”
  9. 🔊 financial liabilities (such as a tax)
    “the charges against the estate”
  10. 🔊 a special assignment that is given to a person or group
    “a confidential mission to London”
  11. 🔊 attention and management implying responsibility for safety
    “he is in the care of a bodyguard”
  12. 🔊 an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
    “the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving”
  13. 🔊 a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
    “the judge's charge to the jury”
  14. 🔊 (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
    “Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge”
  15. 🔊 the swift release of a store of affective force
    “they got a great bang out of it”
  16. 🔊 saturate
    “The room was charged with tension and anxiety”
  17. 🔊 energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
    “I need to charge my car battery”
  18. 🔊 cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
    “charge a conductor”
  19. 🔊 set or ask for a certain price
    “How much do you charge for lunch?”
  20. 🔊 instruct or command with authority
    “The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem”
  21. 🔊 instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
  22. 🔊 impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
    “He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend”
  23. 🔊 blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
    “he charged the director with indifference”
  24. 🔊 make an accusatory claim
    “The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased”
  25. 🔊 file a formal charge against
    “The suspect was charged with murdering his wife”
  26. 🔊 to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
    “he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork”
  27. 🔊 direct into a position for use
    “point a gun”
  28. 🔊 fill or load to capacity
    “charge the wagon with hay”
  29. 🔊 place a heraldic bearing on
    “charge all weapons, shields, and banners”
  30. 🔊 lie down on command, of hunting dogs
  31. 🔊 pay with a credit card
    “Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?”
  32. 🔊 demand payment
    “Will I get charged for this service?”
  33. 🔊 enter a certain amount as a charge
    “he charged me $15”
  34. 🔊 attribute responsibility to
    “We blamed the accident on her”
  35. 🔊 provide (a device) with something necessary
    “He loaded his gun carefully”
  36. 🔊 give over to another for care or safekeeping
    “consign your baggage”
  37. 🔊 assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
    “He was appointed deputy manager”
  38. 🔊 cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
    “The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks”
  39. 🔊 move quickly and violently
    “The car tore down the street”
  40. 🔊 cause to be admitted
    “After the second episode, she had to be committed”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 carga charge
  2. 🔊 cargo charge
  3. 🔊 cobro charge
  4. 🔊 embestida charge
  5. 🔊 embestidura charge
  6. 🔊 figura charge
  7. 🔊 recarga charge
  8. 🔊 embestir to charge
  9. 🔊 cargo charge, burden
  10. 🔊 cebar to charge, load

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