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(verb) saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety" |
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Related Words: impregnate, saturate |
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(verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to charge my car battery" |
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Related Words: boost, furnish, provide, recharge, render, supercharge, supply |
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(verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on (a conductor, for example) |
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(verb) set or ask for a certain price; "How much do you charge for lunch?" "This fellow charges $100 for a massage" |
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Related Words: determine, set |
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(verb) instruct or command with authority; "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem" |
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Related Words: instruct |
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(verb) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence |
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Related Words: instruct |
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(verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend" |
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Synonyms: burden, saddle |
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Related Words: adjure, bear down, command, compel, deluge, flood out, overburden, overwhelm, require |
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(verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against: "he charged me director with indifference" |
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Synonyms: accuse |
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Related Words: accuse, asperse, besmirch, blame, calumniate, criminate, defame, denigrate, fault, impeach, incriminate, indict, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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(verb) make an accusatory claim; "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased" |
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Related Words: claim |
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(verb) file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife" |
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Synonyms: file, lodge |
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Related Words: accuse, criminate, impeach, impeach, incriminate |
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(noun) a impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge" |
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Related Words: attack, onrush, onset, onslaught |
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(verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle: "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork." |
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Synonyms: bear down |
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Related Words: rush |
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(verb) direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me" |
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Synonyms: level, point |
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Related Words: aim, direct, take, take aim, train |
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(verb) load to capacity; "charge the wagon with hay" |
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Related Words: burden, burthen, freight, load, load, weight, weight down |
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Antonyms: discharge |
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(verb) place a heraldic bearing on; of weapons, shields, and banners |
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Related Words: paint |
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(verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs |
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Related Words: lie, lie down |
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(verb) 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?" |
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Related Words: pay |
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Antonyms: pay cash |
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(verb) demand payment; "Will I get charged for this service?" "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although e stayed only 3 nights" |
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Synonyms: bill |
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Related Words: account, calculate, impose, invoice, levy, surcharge, undercharge |
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(verb) enter a certain amount as a charge; "he charged me $15" |
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Related Words: debit |
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(noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains" |
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Synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge |
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Related Words: explosive, shot, undercharge |
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(noun) a design or image depicted on a shield |
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Synonyms: armorial bearing, bearing, heraldic bearing |
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Related Words: annulet, chevron, fleur-de-lis, fleur-de-lys, heraldry, ordinary, roundel |
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(noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny" |
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Synonyms: complaint |
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Related Words: accusal, accusation, pleading |
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(noun) request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month" |
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Synonyms: billing |
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Related Words: asking, presentment, request |
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(noun) a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street" |
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Related Words: dependant, dependent |
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(noun) the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body; "the battery needed a fresh charge" |
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Synonyms: electric charge |
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Related Words: electrical phenomenon, negative charge, positive charge |
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(noun) the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge" |
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Related Words: agio, agiotage, carrying charge, charge per unit, cost, demurrage, depreciation charge, exchange premium, fare, fixed charge, installation charge, overcharge, porterage, premium, rate, service charge, stowage, surcharge, tankage, undercharge, water-rate |
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(noun) a financial liability (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate" |
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Related Words: assessment, encumbrance, financial obligation, incumbrance, indebtedness, levy, liability, pecuniary obligation |
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(noun) a task that has been assigned to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" |
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Synonyms: commission, mission |
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Related Words: assignment, duty assignment, mission impossible |
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(verb) attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience" |
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Synonyms: blame |
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Related Words: ascribe, assign, attribute, impute |
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(noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is under the care of a physician" |
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Synonyms: care, guardianship, tutelage |
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Related Words: due care, great care, guarding, ordinary care, protecting, protection, providence, reasonable care, slight care |
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(verb) provide with munition "He loaded his gun carefully" |
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Synonyms: load |
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Related Words: fill, fill up, make full, recharge, reload |
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(verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage" |
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Synonyms: consign |
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Related Words: check, commit, confide, entrust, hock, intrust, pawn, pledge, soak, trust |
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(verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance" |
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Synonyms: appoint |
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Related Words: accredit, assign, create, delegate, depute, deputise, deputize, designate, dub, knight, make, name, nominate |
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(noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving" |
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Synonyms: accusation |
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Related Words: assertion, asseveration, averment |
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(noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" |
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Synonyms: commission, direction |
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Related Words: bid, bidding, command, dictation, misdirection |
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(noun) the release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a rush!"; "he does it for kicks" |
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Synonyms: bang, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
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Related Words: excitement, exhilaration |
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(noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge" |
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Synonyms: cathexis |
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Related Words: libidinal energy |
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(verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" |
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Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse |
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Related Words: bother, disturb, hype up, pother, psych up, trouble, upset |
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(verb) move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" |
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Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear |
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Related Words: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed |
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(verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" |
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Synonyms: commit, institutionalize, send |
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Related Words: hospitalize, transfer |
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