charge
charge is a 6-letter English word with 74 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
- transitive verb. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
- transitive verb. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
- transitive verb. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
- transitive verb. To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.
- transitive verb. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
- transitive verb. To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.
- transitive verb. To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.
- transitive verb. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
- transitive verb. To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.
- transitive verb. To call to account; to challenge.
- transitive verb. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
- intransitive verb. To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.
- intransitive verb. To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
- intransitive verb. To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
- intransitive verb. To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
- transitive verb. A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
- transitive verb. A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
- transitive verb. Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
- transitive verb. Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.
- transitive verb. Harm.
- transitive verb. An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
- transitive verb. An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.
- transitive verb. An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
- transitive verb. Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.
- transitive verb. The price demanded for a thing or service.
- transitive verb. An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.
- transitive verb. That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time
- transitive verb. The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.
- transitive verb. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
- transitive verb. A soft of plaster or ointment.
- transitive verb. A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
- noun. Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
- noun. Weight; import; value.
- noun. a special assignment that is given to a person or group
"a confidential mission to London"
"his charge was deliver a message"
- noun. attention and management implying responsibility for safety
"he is in the care of a bodyguard"
- noun. an impetuous rush toward someone or something
"the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"
"the battle began with a cavalry charge"
- noun. a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
"this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains"
- noun. heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- noun. (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
"he was arrested on a charge of larceny"
- noun. an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
"the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving"
- noun. a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
"the judge's charge to the jury"
- noun. request for payment of a debt
"they submitted their charges at the end of each month"
- noun. the swift release of a store of affective force
"they got a great bang out of it"
"what a boot!"
- noun. (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
"Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"
- noun. a person committed to your care
"the teacher led her charges across the street"
- noun. the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
"the battery needed a fresh charge"
- noun. the price charged for some article or service
"the admission charge"
- noun. financial liabilities (such as a tax)
"the charges against the estate"
- verb. saturate
"The room was charged with tension and anxiety"
- verb. energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
"I need to charge my car battery"
- verb. cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
"charge a conductor"
- verb. set or ask for a certain price
"How much do you charge for lunch?"
"This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
- verb. attribute responsibility to
"We blamed the accident on her"
"The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
- verb. instruct or command with authority
"The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
- verb. instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- verb. impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
"He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
- verb. blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
"he charged the director with indifference"
- verb. make an accusatory claim
"The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased"
- verb. file a formal charge against
"The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
- verb. to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
"he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork"
- verb. direct into a position for use
"point a gun"
"He charged his weapon at me"
- verb. fill or load to capacity
"charge the wagon with hay"
- verb. provide (a device) with something necessary
"He loaded his gun carefully"
"load the camera"
- verb. place a heraldic bearing on
"charge all weapons, shields, and banners"
- verb. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
"The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
- verb. lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- verb. move quickly and violently
"The car tore down the street"
"He came charging into my office"
- verb. pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
"Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?"
- verb. demand payment
"Will I get charged for this service?"
"We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
- verb. enter a certain amount as a charge
"he charged me $15"
- verb. give over to another for care or safekeeping
"consign your baggage"
- verb. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
"After the second episode, she had to be committed"
"he was committed to prison"
- verb. assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
"He was appointed deputy manager"
"She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
Synonyms
commission, mission, care, guardianship, tutelage, burster, bearing, complaint, accusation, direction, billing, bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill, cathexis, blame, burden, saddle, accuse, file, lodge
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in charge:
Common word forms
charged, charger, charges, charging, chargeful, chargeable, chargeless
Words from these letters
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