| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | chaa'rjh |
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| Rhymes | barge, countercharge, discharge, and 8 more rhymes in aarjh at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense. |
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| Examples | "he was arrested on a charge of larceny" |
| Synonyms | complaint |
| Category | criminal law |
| Part of | indictment, bill of indictment |
| Narrower | accusation, accusal |
| Broader | pleading |
| Verbs | charge; charge |
| Meaning | The price charged for some article or service. |
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| Examples | "the admission charge" |
| Narrower | carrying charge; depreciation charge; undercharge; overcharge; fare, transportation; fixed charge, fixed cost, fixed costs; agio, agiotage, premium, exchange premium; demurrage; installation charge; porterage; postage; poundage; rate, charge per unit; water-rate; surcharge; service charge, service fee; stowage; tankage |
| Broader | cost |
| Verbs | charge; charge; charge |
| Meaning | An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence. |
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| Examples | "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving" |
| Synonyms | accusation |
| Narrower | countercharge |
| Broader | assertion, averment, asseveration |
| Verbs | charge; charge |
| Meaning | Request for payment of a debt. |
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| Examples | "they submitted their charges at the end of each month" |
| Synonyms | billing |
| Narrower | presentment |
| Broader | request, asking |
| Verbs | charge; charge; charge |
| Meaning | A impetuous rush toward someone or something. |
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| Examples | "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge" |
| Narrower | countercharge |
| Broader | attack, onslaught, onset, onrush |
| Verbs | charge |
| Meaning | The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons. |
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| Examples | "the battery needed a fresh charge" |
| Synonyms | electric charge |
| Narrower | electrostatic charge; positive charge; negative charge |
| Broader | electrical phenomenon |
| Verbs | charge; charge |
| Meaning | Financial liabilities (such as a tax). |
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| Examples | "the charges against the estate" |
| Category | tax, taxation, revenue enhancement |
| Narrower | levy; encumbrance, incumbrance; assessment |
| Broader | liabilities |
| Verbs | charge |
| Meaning | A person committed to your care. |
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| Examples | "the teacher led her charges across the street" |
| Broader | dependant, dependent |
| Verbs | charge; charge |
| Meaning | Attention and management implying responsibility for safety. |
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| Synonyms | care, tutelage, guardianship |
| Narrower | due care, ordinary care, reasonable care; foster care; great care; providence; slight care |
| Broader | protection |
| Verbs | charge |
| Meaning | A special assignment that is given to a person or group. |
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| Examples | "his charge was deliver a message" |
| Synonyms | mission, commission |
| Narrower | fool's errand; mission impossible; suicide mission, martyr operation, sacrifice operation |
| Broader | assignment, duty assignment |
| Verbs | charge; charge; charge |
| Meaning | A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something. |
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| Examples | "the judge's charge to the jury" |
| Synonyms | commission, direction |
| Narrower | misdirection |
| Broader | command, bid, bidding, dictation |
| Verbs | charge; charge |
| Meaning | A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time. |
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| Examples | "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains" |
| Synonyms | burster, bursting charge, explosive charge |
| Narrower | shot; undercharge; rocket fuel, rocket propellant, rocket propellent |
| Broader | explosive |
| Verbs | charge |
| Meaning | The swift release of a store of affective force. |
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| Synonyms | bang, boot, rush, flush, thrill, kick |
| Broader | exhilaration, excitement |
| Verbs | charge |
| Meaning | (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object. |
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| Examples | "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge" |
| Synonyms | cathexis |
| Category | psychoanalysis, analysis, depth psychology |
| Broader | libidinal energy |
| Meaning | Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield. |
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| Synonyms | bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing |
| Narrower | annulet, roundel; chevron; fleur-de-lis, fleur-de-lys; ordinary |
| Broader | heraldry |
| Verbs | charge |
| Meaning | To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Synonyms | bear down |
| Broader | rush |
| Nouns | charger; charge |
| Meaning | Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody with something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Model | They want to charge the prisoners |
| Examples | "he charged me director with indifference" |
| Synonyms | accuse |
| Entailed by | arraign |
| Narrower | blame, fault; accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate; defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch; indict |
| Nouns | charge; charge |
| Meaning | Demand payment. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody something |
| Examples | "Will I get charged for this service?" |
| Synonyms | bill |
| Entailed by | overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook |
| Narrower | levy, impose; tithe; assess; undercharge; surcharge; invoice |
| Broader | account, calculate |
| Similar to | charge |
| Nouns | charge; charge |
| Meaning | Move quickly and violently. |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | tear, shoot, shoot down, buck |
| Narrower | rip |
| Broader | rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along |
| Similar to | dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot |
| Meaning | Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody something |
| Model | They charge him to write the letter |
| Examples | "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance" |
| Synonyms | appoint |
| Narrower | delegate, designate, depute, assign; depute, deputize, deputise; name, nominate, make; empower, authorise, authorize; accredit; create |
| Nouns | charge; charge; charge; charge |
| Meaning | File a formal charge against. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody with something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Examples | "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife" |
| Synonyms | lodge, file |
| Narrower | impeach |
| Broader | accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Make an accusatory claim. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Examples | "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased" |
| Narrower | tax; complain |
| Broader | claim |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Fill or load to capacity. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody with something; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "charge the wagon with hay" |
| Narrower | burden, burthen, weight, weight down; freight |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Contrary | discharge |
| Similar to | charge |
| Meaning | Enter a certain amount as a charge. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
| Examples | "he charged me $15" |
| Broader | debit |
| Similar to | charge, bill |
| Nouns | charge; charge; charge |
| Meaning | Cause to be admitted. Of persons to an institution. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody PP |
| Synonyms | commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send |
| Narrower | hospitalize, hospitalise |
| Broader | transfer |
| Meaning | Give over to another for care or safekeeping. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something to somebody |
| Synonyms | consign |
| Narrower | pledge; pawn, soak, hock; check; check |
| Broader | entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commit |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Pay with a credit card. Pay with plastic money. Postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?" |
| Broader | pay |
| Contrary | pay cash |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Lie down on command, of hunting dogs. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Broader | lie down, lie |
| Meaning | Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
| Examples | "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" |
| Synonyms | agitate, rouse, turn on, commove, excite, charge up |
| Narrower | hype up, psych up; bother; pother; electrify |
| Broader | disturb, upset, trouble |
| Contrary | calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Place a heraldic bearing on. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "charge all weapons, shields, and banners" |
| Category | art, artistic creation, artistic production |
| Broader | paint |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Provide with munition. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Synonyms | load |
| Narrower | recharge, reload |
| Broader | fill, fill up, make full |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Direct into a position for use. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Examples | "He charged his weapon at me" |
| Synonyms | level, point |
| Broader | aim, take, train, take aim, direct |
| Similar to | point |
| Meaning | Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s somebody with something |
| Examples | "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend" |
| Synonyms | saddle, burden |
| Narrower | overburden; bear down; overwhelm, deluge, flood out; adjure |
| Broader | command, require, compel |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Category | law, jurisprudence |
| Broader | instruct |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Instruct or command with authority. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
| Examples | "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem" |
| Broader | instruct |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Attribute responsibility to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience" |
| Synonyms | blame |
| Broader | impute, ascribe, assign, attribute |
| Meaning | Set or ask for a certain price. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "How much do you charge for lunch?"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage" |
| Broader | determine, set |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "charge a conductor" |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Similar to | charge |
| Nouns | charge |
| Meaning | Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "I need to charge my car battery" |
| Narrower | recharge |
| Broader | supply, provide, render, furnish |
| Similar to | charge |
| Nouns | charge; charger |
| Meaning | Saturate. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "The room was charged with tension and anxiety" |
| Broader | impregnate, saturate |
| Similar to | charge |