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      charge
      noun
      The amount of money levied for a service.
      (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
      A forceful forward movement.
      An accusation.
      An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
      An accusation by a person or organization.
      (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
      The scope of someone's responsibility.
      Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
      A load or burden; cargo.
      An instruction.
      (property law) A mortgage.
      (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
      (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
      (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
      (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
      (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
      (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
      (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
      (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
      Ellipsis of CHARGE syndrome. [A rare syndrome caused by a genetic disorder, usually involving coloboma of the eye, heart defects, atresia of the nasal choanae, retardation of growth and/or development, genital and/or urinary abnormalities, and ear abnormalities and deafness.]
      (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
      (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
      verb
      To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
      (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
      (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
      (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
      (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
      (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
      To impute or ascribe.
      To call to account; to challenge.
      (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
      To ornament with or cause to bear.
      (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
      (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
      (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
      (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
      (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
      (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
      (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
      (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
      (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
      (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
      (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
      (transitive, dated) To sell (something) at a given price.
      Roots
      carruscharg- · Latin · wheeled vehicle
      Synonyms for charge
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      Words related to charge
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