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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Charge \Charge\ (ch[aum]rj), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Charged} (ch[aum]rjd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Charging}.] [OF. chargier, F. charger, fr. LL. carricare, fr. L. carrus wagon. Cf. {Cargo}, {Caricature}, {Cark}, and see {Car}.]
1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
A carte that charged was with hay. --Chaucer.
The charging of children's memories with rules. --Locke.
2. 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.
Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. --Josh. xxii. 5.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. --Shak.
3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
When land shall be charged by any lien. --Kent.
4. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
5. 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.
6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On native sloth and negligence of time. --Dryden.
7. 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.
If he did that wrong you charge him with. --Tennyson.
8. 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.
Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. --Shak.
9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
10. (Her.) 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.
11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.]
To charge me to an answer. --Shak.
12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
Charged our main battle's front. --Shak.
Syn: To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach; arraign. See {Accuse}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
charged
adjective
1: of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge; "charged particles"; "a charged battery" [ant: {uncharged}]
2: fraught with great emotion; "an atmosphere charged with excitement"; "an emotionally charged speech" [syn: {supercharged}]
3: supplied with carbon dioxide [syn: {aerated}]
4: capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy; "the highly charged issue of abortion"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "charged": accountable, accused, activated, agitating, alleged, arraigned, ascribable, assignable, attributable, attributed, autoluminescent, blamed, breathtaking, burdened, cited, cliff-hanging, climacteric, contaminated, credited, critical, crucial, cumbered, decisive, denounced, derivable from, derivational, derivative, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, due, electric, electrified, emergent, encumbered, exciting, exhilarating, exigent, explicable, fraught, freighted, full-charged, full-fraught, galvanic, hampered, heady, heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling, heavy-laden, high-tension, hot, impeached, implicated, impressive, impugned, imputable, imputed, in complicity, incriminated, inculpated, indicted, infected, inflammatory, intoxicating, involved, irradiated, jarring, jolting, kairotic, laden, live, loaded, maddening, mind-blowing, moving, oppressed, overburdened, overcharged, overcoming, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overmastering, overpowering, overtaxed, overweighted, overwhelming, owing, perturbing, piquant, pivotal, poisoned, pregnant, provocative, provoking, putative, radiferous, radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, ravishing, referable, referred to, reproached, saddled, soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, striking, supercharged, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, tasked, taxed, telling, thrilling, thrilly, traceable, troubling, under attack, under fire, unsettling, upsetting, weighted, weighted down
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