charge
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- definition (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- definition the price charged for some article or service
- definition the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- definition attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- definition a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- definition a person committed to your care
- definition financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- definition (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- definition the swift release of a store of affective force
- definition request for payment of a debt
- definition a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- definition an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- definition heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- definition a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
- definition to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- definition blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- definition demand payment
- definition move quickly and violently
- definition assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- definition file a formal charge against
- definition make an accusatory claim
- definition fill or load to capacity
- definition enter a certain amount as a charge
- definition cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- definition give over to another for care or safekeeping
- definition pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- definition lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- definition cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- definition place a heraldic bearing on
- definition provide (a device) with something necessary
- definition direct into a position for use
- definition impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- definition instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- definition instruct or command with authority
- definition attribute responsibility to
- definition set or ask for a certain price
- definition cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- definition energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- definition saturate