English word
Charge
Definitions
verb
- to fix or ask as fee or payment
- to fill or furnish fully
- electrify sense 2
- to assume as a heraldic bearing (see bearing sense 4)
- to place a heraldic bearing on
- to lay or put a load on or in : loadarchaic
- to rush against : attack
- to rush into (an opponent) usually illegally in various sportsalso
- to bring (a weapon) into position for attack : level
- to make an assertion or accusation against especially by formally ascribing guilt or blame for an offense
- to place the guilt or blame for
- to assert as an accusation
- to ask payment of (a person)
- to impose a task or responsibility on
- to command, instruct, or exhort with authority
- to give a charge (see charge entry 2 sense 6a) to (a jury)of a judge
- to rush forward in or as if in assault : attack
- to charge an opponent in sportsalso
- to ask or set a price
- to charge an item to an account
- to gain an electric charge : to receive and store a greater quantity of electrical energyof a battery or battery-powered device
- to record (an item) as an expense, debt, obligation, or liability
- to impose a financial burden on
- to impose or record as financial obligation
- to give an electric charge to
- 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
- to place a charge (as of powder) in
- to load or fill to capacity
Synonyms for charge
Closest evidence-backed alternatives.
- ask
- demand
- indictment
- count