What is the meaning of charged?

verb

• To make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle.
  • usage: "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork"
  • synonyms: charge, bear down
• Blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against.
  • usage: "he charged the director with indifference"
  • synonyms: charge, accuse
• Demand payment.
  • usage: "Will I get charged for this service"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
  • synonyms: charge, bill
• Move quickly and violently.
  • usage: "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
  • synonyms: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck
• Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.
  • usage: "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
  • synonyms: appoint, charge
• File a formal charge against.
  • usage: "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
  • synonyms: charge, lodge, file
• Make an accusatory claim.
  • usage: "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased"
  • synonyms: charge
• Fill or load to capacity.
  • usage: "charge the wagon with hay"
  • synonyms: charge
• Enter a certain amount as a charge.
  • usage: "he charged me $15"
  • synonyms: charge
• Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
  • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • synonyms: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
• Give over to another for care or safekeeping.
  • usage: "consign your baggage"
  • synonyms: consign, charge
• Pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt.
  • usage: "Will you pay cash or charge the purchase"
  • synonyms: charge
• Lie down on command, of hunting dogs.
  • synonyms: charge
• Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused.
  • usage: "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
  • synonyms: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up
• Place a heraldic bearing on.
  • usage: "charge all weapons, shields, and banners"
  • synonyms: charge
• Provide (a device) with something necessary.
  • usage: "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera"
  • synonyms: load, charge
• Direct into a position for use.
  • usage: "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"
  • synonyms: charge, level, point
• Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to.
  • usage: "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
  • synonyms: charge, saddle, burden
• Instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.
  • synonyms: charge
• Instruct or command with authority.
  • usage: "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
  • synonyms: charge
• Attribute responsibility to.
  • usage: "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
  • synonyms: blame, charge
• Set or ask for a certain price.
  • usage: "How much do you charge for lunch"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
  • synonyms: charge
• Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on.
  • usage: "charge a conductor"
  • synonyms: charge
• Energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge.
  • usage: "I need to charge my car battery"
  • synonyms: charge
• Saturate.
  • usage: "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"
  • synonyms: charge

adjective

• Of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge.
  • usage: "charged particles"; "a charged battery"
• Fraught with great emotion.
  • usage: "an atmosphere charged with excitement"; "an emotionally charged speech"
  • synonyms: supercharged
• Supplied with carbon dioxide.
  • synonyms: aerated
• Capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy.
  • usage: "the highly charged issue of abortion"