Meaning : An impetuous rush toward someone or something.

Example : The wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary.
The battle began with a cavalry charge.

Meaning : (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense.

Example : He was arrested on a charge of larceny.

Synonyms : complaint

Meaning : The price charged for some article or service.

Example : The admission charge.

Meaning : The quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons.

Example : The battery needed a fresh charge.

Synonyms : electric charge

Meaning : Attention and management implying responsibility for safety.

Example : He is in the care of a bodyguard.

Synonyms : care, guardianship, tutelage

Meaning : A special assignment that is given to a person or group.

Example : A confidential mission to London.
His charge was deliver a message.

Synonyms : commission, mission

Meaning : A person committed to your care.

Example : The teacher led her charges across the street.

Meaning : Financial liabilities (such as a tax).

Example : The charges against the estate.

Meaning : (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object.

Example : Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge.

Synonyms : cathexis

Meaning : The swift release of a store of affective force.

Example : They got a great bang out of it.
What a boot!.
He got a quick rush from injecting heroin.
He does it for kicks.

Synonyms : bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill

Meaning : Request for payment of a debt.

Example : They submitted their charges at the end of each month.

Synonyms : billing

Meaning : A formal statement of a command or injunction to do something.

Example : The judge's charge to the jury.

Synonyms : commission, direction

Meaning : An assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence.

Example : The newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving.

Synonyms : accusation

Meaning : Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield.

Synonyms : armorial bearing, bearing, heraldic bearing

Meaning : A quantity of explosive to be set off at one time.

Example : This cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains.

Synonyms : burster, bursting charge, explosive charge

Meaning : To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle.

Example : He saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.

Synonyms : bear down

Meaning : Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against.

Example : He charged the director with indifference.

Synonyms : accuse

Meaning : Demand payment.

Example : Will I get charged for this service?.
We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights.

Synonyms : bill

Meaning : Move quickly and violently.

Example : The car tore down the street.
He came charging into my office.

Synonyms : buck, shoot, shoot down, tear

Meaning : Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.

Example : He was appointed deputy manager.
She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance.

Synonyms : appoint

Meaning : File a formal charge against.

Example : The suspect was charged with murdering his wife.

Synonyms : file, lodge

Meaning : Make an accusatory claim.

Example : The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased.

Meaning : Fill or load to capacity.

Example : Charge the wagon with hay.

Meaning : Enter a certain amount as a charge.

Example : He charged me $15.

Meaning : Cause to be admitted. Of persons to an institution.

Example : After the second episode, she had to be committed.
He was committed to prison.

Synonyms : commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send

Meaning : Give over to another for care or safekeeping.

Example : Consign your baggage.

Synonyms : consign

Meaning : Pay with a credit card. Pay with plastic money. Postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt.

Example : Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?.

Meaning : Lie down on command, of hunting dogs.

Meaning : Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.

Example : The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks.

Synonyms : agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on

Meaning : Place a heraldic bearing on.

Example : Charge all weapons, shields, and banners.

Meaning : Provide (a device) with something necessary.

Example : He loaded his gun carefully.
Load the camera.

Synonyms : load

Meaning : Direct into a position for use.

Example : Point a gun.
He charged his weapon at me.

Synonyms : level, point

Meaning : Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to.

Example : He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend.

Synonyms : burden, saddle

Meaning : Instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.

Meaning : Instruct or command with authority.

Example : The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem.

Meaning : Attribute responsibility to.

Example : We blamed the accident on her.
The tragedy was charged to her inexperience.

Synonyms : blame

Meaning : Set or ask for a certain price.

Example : How much do you charge for lunch?.
This fellow charges $100 for a massage.

Meaning : Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on.

Example : Charge a conductor.

Meaning : Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge.

Example : I need to charge my car battery.

Meaning : Saturate.

Example : The room was charged with tension and anxiety.