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supercharged

[ soo-per-chahrjd ]

adjective

  1. equipped with a supercharger.
  2. (of a gas or liquid) subjected to pressurization.
  3. full of energy, emotion, tension, etc.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of supercharged1

First recorded in 1885–90; supercharge + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

A viewer can almost feel the thrill of biking on a glorious day become supercharged with the rush of riding in numbers.

You could feel the crackle in the supercharged air of a gender whose time had come.

It will take daring initiatives from both the private and public sectors—supercharged with an infusion of personal responsibility.

He had the look of a man whose original rustic stolidity had been supercharged with cockney cunning.

These were a few of the salutations discernible among the medley of playful yells, the safety valves of supercharged good-nature.

His system was supercharged with typhoid bacilli, and, as sometimes occurs, the superfluous "bugs" had sought exit.

The nervous organism of the healthy young child is usually supercharged with nervous energy.

The air was supercharged with reports of treasure, and no reports were too wild for belief; myths, big and little, ran amuck.

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