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Noun charge has 15 senses
- charge, complaint - (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"
--1 is a kind of pleading
--1 is a part of indictment, bill of indictment
--1 has particulars: accusation, accusal
- charge - the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge"
--2 is a kind of cost
--2 has particulars:
- accusation, charge - an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving"
--3 is a kind of assertion, averment, asseveration
--3 has particulars: countercharge
- charge, billing - request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month"
--4 is a kind of request, asking
--4 has particulars: presentment
- charge - a impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
--5 is a kind of attack, onslaught, onset, onrush
--5 has particulars: countercharge
- charge, electric 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"
--6 is a kind of electrical phenomenon
--6 has particulars: electrostatic charge; positive charge; negative charge
- charge - financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate"
--7 is a kind of liabilities
--7 has particulars: levy; encumbrance, incumbrance; assessment
- charge - a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street"
--8 is a kind of dependant, dependent
- care, charge, tutelage, guardianship - attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
--9 is a kind of protection
--9 has particulars:
- mission, charge, commission - a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message"
--10 is a kind of assignment, duty assignment
--10 has particulars:
- commission, charge, direction - a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury"
--11 is a kind of command, bid, bidding, dictation
--11 has particulars: misdirection
- charge, burster, bursting charge, explosive charge - a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains"
--12 is a kind of explosive
--12 has particulars:
- bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick - the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
--13 is a kind of exhilaration, excitement
- cathexis, charge - (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"
--14 is a kind of libidinal energy
- charge, bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing - heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
--15 is a kind of heraldry
--15 has particulars:
Verb charge has 25 senses
- charge, bear down - to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle; "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork"
--1 is one way to rush
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
=> Somebody ----s
- charge, accuse - blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged me director with indifference"
Sample sentence:
They want to charge the prisoners
- charge, bill - demand payment; "Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
--3 is one way to account, calculate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
- tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck - move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
--4 is one way to rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- appoint, charge - assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
Sample sentence:
They charge him to write the letter
- charge, lodge, file - file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
--6 is one way to accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- charge - make an accusatory claim; "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased"
--7 is one way to claim
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- charge - fill or load to capacity; "charge the wagon with hay"
--8 is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: discharge
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s something PP
- charge - enter a certain amount as a charge; "he charged me $15"
--9 is one way to debit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge - cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
--10 is one way to transfer
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- consign, charge - give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"
--11 is one way to entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- charge - 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?"
--12 is one way to pay
Antonyms: pay cash
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
- charge - lie down on command, of hunting dogs
--13 is one way to lie down, lie
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up - cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
--14 is one way to disturb, upset, trouble
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- charge - place a heraldic bearing on; "charge all weapons, shields, and banners"
--15 is one way to paint
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- load, charge - provide with munition; "He loaded his gun carefully"
--16 is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- charge, level, point - direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"
--17 is one way to aim, take, train, take aim, direct
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- charge, saddle, burden - impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
--18 is one way to command, require, compel
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody with something
=> Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- charge - instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
--19 is one way to instruct
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- charge - instruct or command with authority; "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
--20 is one way to instruct
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- blame, charge - attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
--21 is one way to impute, ascribe, assign, attribute
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- charge - set or ask for a certain price; "How much do you charge for lunch?"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
--22 is one way to determine, set
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- charge - cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on; "charge a conductor"
--23 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- charge - energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to charge my car battery"
--24 is one way to supply, provide, render, furnish
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- charge - saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"
--25 is one way to impregnate, saturate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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