English word

Charge

Definitions

verb

  1. to fix or ask as fee or payment
  2. to fill or furnish fully
  3. electrify sense 2
  4. to assume as a heraldic bearing (see bearing sense 4)
  5. to place a heraldic bearing on
  6. to lay or put a load on or in : loadarchaic
  7. to rush against : attack
  8. to rush into (an opponent) usually illegally in various sportsalso
  9. to bring (a weapon) into position for attack : level
  10. to make an assertion or accusation against especially by formally ascribing guilt or blame for an offense
  11. to place the guilt or blame for
  12. to assert as an accusation
  13. to ask payment of (a person)
  14. to impose a task or responsibility on
  15. to command, instruct, or exhort with authority
  16. to give a charge (see charge entry 2 sense 6a) to (a jury)of a judge
  17. to rush forward in or as if in assault : attack
  18. to charge an opponent in sportsalso
  19. to ask or set a price
  20. to charge an item to an account
  21. to gain an electric charge : to receive and store a greater quantity of electrical energyof a battery or battery-powered device
  22. to record (an item) as an expense, debt, obligation, or liability
  23. to impose a financial burden on
  24. to impose or record as financial obligation
  25. to give an electric charge to
  26. to restore the active materials in (a storage battery) by the passage of a direct current through in the opposite direction to that of discharge
  27. to place a charge (as of powder) in
  28. to load or fill to capacity

Synonyms for charge

Closest evidence-backed alternatives.

  • ask
  • demand
  • indictment
  • count