[chahrj] 
verb, charged, charg⋅ing, noun | 1. | to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves. |
| 2. | to impose on or ask of (someone) a price or fee: He didn't charge me for it. |
| 3. | to defer payment for (a purchase) until a bill is rendered by the creditor: The store let me charge the coat. |
| 4. | to hold liable for payment; enter a debit against. |
| 5. | to attack by rushing violently against: The cavalry charged the enemy. |
| 6. | to accuse formally or explicitly (usually fol. by with): They charged him with theft. |
| 7. | to impute; ascribe the responsibility for: He charged the accident to his own carelessness. |
| 8. | to instruct authoritatively, as a judge does a jury. |
| 9. | to lay a command or injunction upon: He charged his secretary with the management of his correspondence. |
| 10. | to fill or furnish (a thing) with the quantity, as of powder or fuel, that it is fitted to receive: to charge a musket. |
| 11. | to supply with a quantity of electric charge or electrical energy: to charge a storage battery. |
| 12. | to change the net amount of positive or negative electric charge of (a particle, body, or system). |
| 13. | to suffuse, as with emotion: The air was charged with excitement. |
| 14. | to fill (air, water, etc.) with other matter in a state of diffusion or solution: The air was charged with pollen. |
| 15. | Metallurgy. to load (materials) into a furnace, converter, etc. |
| 16. | to load or burden (the mind, heart, etc.): His mind was charged with weighty matters. |
| 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 fol. by out): The librarian will charge those books at the front desk. |
| 19. | to borrow, as books or other materials from a library (often fol. by out): How many magazines may I charge at one time? |
| 20. | Heraldry. to place charges on (an escutcheon). |
| 21. | to make an onset; rush, as to an attack. |
| 22. | to place the price of a thing to one's debit. |
| 23. | to require payment: to charge for a service. |
| 24. | to make a debit, as in an account. |
| 25. | (of dogs) to lie down at command. |
| 26. | expense or cost: improvements made at a tenant's own charge. |
| 27. | a fee or price charged: a charge of three dollars for admission. |
| 28. | a pecuniary burden, encumbrance, tax, or lien; cost; expense; liability to pay: After his death there were many charges on his estate. |
| 29. | an entry in an account of something due. |
| 30. | an impetuous onset or attack, as of soldiers. |
| 31. | a signal by bugle, drum, etc., for a military charge. |
| 32. | a duty or responsibility laid upon or entrusted to one. |
| 33. | care, custody, or superintendence: The child was placed in her nurse's charge. |
| 34. | anything or anybody committed to one's care or management: The nurse was careful to let no harm come to her charge. |
| 35. | Ecclesiastical. a parish or congregation committed to the spiritual care of a pastor. |
| 36. | a command or injunction; exhortation. |
| 37. | an accusation: He was arrested on a charge of theft. |
| 38. | 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. |
| 39. | the quantity of anything that an apparatus is fitted to hold, or holds, at one time: a charge of coal for a furnace. |
| 40. | a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time. |
| 41. | Electricity.
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| 42. | Slang. a thrill; kick. |
| 43. | Rocketry. grains of a solid propellant, usually including an inhibitor. |
| 44. | a load or burden. |
| 45. | Heraldry. any distinctive mark upon an escutcheon, as an ordinary or device, not considered as belonging to the field; bearing. |
| 46. | charge off,
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| 47. | charge up, Informal.
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| 48. | in charge,
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| 49. | in charge of,
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charge (chärj) Pronunciation Key
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