[syn: aerated, charged]
4. capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy;
- Example: "the highly charged issue of abortion"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Charge \Charge\ (ch[aum]rj), v. t. [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.
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A carte that charged was with hay. --Chaucer.
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The charging of children's memories with rules.
--Locke.
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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.
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Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God.
--Josh. xxii.
5.
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Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
--Shak.
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3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
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When land shall be charged by any lien. --Kent.
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4. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a
barrel for apples.
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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.
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6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
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No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime
On native sloth and negligence of time. --Dryden.
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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.
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If he did that wrong you charge him with.
--Tennyson.
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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.
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Their battering cannon charged to the mouths.
--Shak.
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9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an
architectural member with a molding.
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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.
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11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.]
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To charge me to an answer. --Shak.
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12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
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Charged our main battle's front. --Shak.
Syn: To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach;
arraign. See Accuse.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
charged
adj 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: charged,
supercharged]
3: supplied with carbon dioxide [syn: aerated, charged]
4: capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy;
"the highly charged issue of abortion"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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