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Verb: charge chaa(r)j- To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
"he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork" - Noun: charge chaa(r)j- An impetuous rush toward someone or something
"the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge" - (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offence
"he was arrested on a charge of larceny" - complaint - The price charged for some article or service
"the admission charge" - 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" - electric charge - Attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- care, tutelage, guardianship - A special assignment that is given to a person or group
"his charge was to deliver a message" - mission, commission - A person committed to your care
"the teacher led her charges across the street" - Financial liabilities (such as a tax)
"the charges against the estate" - (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
"Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge" - cathexis - The swift release of a store of affective force
- bang, boot, rush, flush, thrill, kick - Request for payment of a debt
"they submitted their charges at the end of each month" - billing - A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
"the judge's charge to the jury" - commission, direction - An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
"the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving" - accusation - Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing - A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
"this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains" - burster, bursting charge, explosive charge
Derived forms: charging, charged, charges See also: charger Type of: account, accuse, aim, alter, ascribe, asking, assertion, asseveration, assign, assignment, attack, attribute, averment, belt along, bid, bidding, bucket along, calculate, cannonball along, change, claim, command, commit, confide, cost, criminate, debit, dependant, dependent, determine, dictation, direct, disturb, duty assignment, electrical phenomenon, entrust, excitement, exhilaration, explosive, fill, fill up, furnish, hasten, heraldry, hie [archaic], hotfoot, impeach, impregnate, impute, incriminate, instruct, intrust, liabilities, libidinal energy, lie, lie down, make full, modify, onrush, onset, onslaught, paint, pay, pelt along, pleading, protection, provide, race, render, request, require, rush, rush along, saturate, set, speed, step on it, supply, take, take aim, train, transfer, trouble, trust, upset Antonym: discharge, pay cash Part of: bill of indictment, indictment Encyclopedia: Charge |