Definitions for charged

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charged charged

Spelling: [chahrjd]

IPA: /tʃɑrdʒd/

Charged is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in charged (acdeghr).

Definitions for charged

noun

1. expense or cost:
2. a fee or price charged:
3. a pecuniary burden, encumbrance, tax, or lien; cost; expense; liability to pay:
4. an entry in an account of something due.
5. an impetuous onset or attack, as of soldiers.
6. a signal by bugle, drum, etc., for a military charge.
7. a duty or responsibility laid upon or entrusted to one.
8. care, custody, or superintendence:
9. anything or anybody committed to one's care or management:
10. Ecclesiastical. a parish or congregation committed to the spiritual care of a pastor.
11. a command or injunction; exhortation.
12. an accusation:
13. Law. an address by a judge to a jury at the close of a trial, instructing it as to the legal points, the weight of evidence, etc., affecting the verdict in the case.
14. the quantity of anything that an apparatus is fitted to hold, or holds, at one time:
15. a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.
16. Electricity. electric charge. the process of charging a storage battery.
17. Slang. a thrill; kick.
18. Rocketry. grains of a solid propellant, usually including an inhibitor.
19. a load or burden.
20. Heraldry. any distinctive mark upon an escutcheon, as an ordinary or device, not considered as belonging to the field; bearing.

Idioms

1. in charge, in command; having supervisory power. British. under arrest; in or into the custody of the police.
2. in charge of, having the care or supervision of: Also, in the charge of. under the care or supervision of:

adjective

1. intense; impassioned:
2. fraught with emotion:
3. capable of producing violent emotion, arousing controversy, etc.:
4. Electricity. pertaining to a particle, body, or system possessing a net amount of positive or negative electric charge.

Verb phrases

1. charge off, to write off as an expense or loss. to attribute to:
2. charge up, Informal. to agitate, stimulate, or excite: to put or be under the influence of narcotic drugs.

verb (used with object)

1. to impose or ask as a price or fee:
2. to impose on or ask of (someone) a price or fee:
3. to defer payment for (a purchase) until a bill is rendered by the creditor:
4. to hold liable for payment; enter a debit against.
5. to attack by rushing violently against:
6. to accuse formally or explicitly (usually followed by with):
7. to impute; ascribe the responsibility for:
8. to instruct authoritatively, as a judge does a jury.
9. to lay a command or injunction upon:
10. to fill or furnish (a thing) with the quantity, as of powder or fuel, that it is fitted to receive:
11. to supply with a quantity of electric charge or electrical energy:
12. to change the net amount of positive or negative electric charge of (a particle, body, or system).
13. to suffuse, as with emotion:
14. to fill (air, water, etc.) with other matter in a state of diffusion or solution:
15. Metallurgy. to load (materials) into a furnace, converter, etc.
16. to load or burden (the mind, heart, etc.):
17. to put a load or burden on or in.
18. to record the loan of, as books or other materials from a library (often followed by out):
19. to borrow, as books or other materials from a library (often followed by out):
20. Heraldry. to place charges on (an escutcheon).

verb (used without object)

1. to make an onset; rush, as to an attack.
2. to place the price of a thing to one's debit.
3. to require payment:
4. to make a debit, as in an account.
5. (of dogs) to lie down at command.

Origin of charged

1275-1325; Middle English, for sense “laden, filled”; 1785-95 for def 1; see charge, -ed²

Examples for charged

We are charged with the sacred duty of making their path as smooth and easy as we can.

Passengers were asked to make sure their phones and other devices were charged so that they could be switched on for inspection.

The official's voice was charged with threatening as he went on.

It was charged that the system of education at Eton failed in every point.

The mother, Emily Kruse, was charged with obstructing justice and intimidating a witness.

That is why I visited my relatives in Iran in 2011, when I was unjustly arrested and charged with espionage.

The attack in which Murray is charged has been front-page news in New York for almost a week.

In 2011, he was arrested while visiting his grandmother in Iran, charged with espionage, and sentenced to death.

On his death-bed he charged his nephew to protect and cherish me as a sister.

With them, the crook is presumed guilty at the outset of whatever may be charged against him.