to charge
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4.1
- verb
- /tʃɑrdʒ/
- I understand this is an emotionally charged issue, But let's try to stay on course here.
- emotionally charged
- politically charged
- highly charged
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Watch on YouTubeIt feels the smell from the forest charges me and heals me.
- It feels the smell from the forest charges me and heals me.
- And then we get to charge that circumstance or that event with meaning.
- To to sort of emotionally get charged around.
Examples
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Suddenly, the air was charged.
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But many contexts and purposes of its use are highly charged with anxiety.
Academic text (1999) -
Your intent charges the energy.
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The command tent inside was exactly the kind of highly charged place he expected it to be.
Fiction book (1995) -
I feel very emotionally charged.
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But adults continued to experience emotionally charged and sensory streams.
Academic text (2017) -
It's like an emotionally charged anchor that keeps us tethered to this world.
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A huddle of figures sweeps down a dark corridor, charged with power and purpose.
Fiction book (1997) -
Quinquagesima, a Sunday charged with emotion, dwells on love, on death, and on vision restored.
Academic text (2017) -
The inspiring speech by the coach charged the team with excitement before the big game.
Synonyms
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2.7
To make someone feel very happy, interested, or eager
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5.1
To make people feel strong emotion and want to act
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6.9
To fill a person or thing with a particular quality
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4.8
To make people feel excited and ready to act
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
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4.1
To move quickly and forcefully forward across a playing field in sports to try to score
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.9
A quality in objects that makes them pull together or push apart, called positive and negative
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3.9
An extra fee each person pays to enter a restaurant or club, not for food and drink
- Specialized
4
3.9
An electrical state when an object has fewer electrons than protons
- Specialized
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4.1
A state when an object has more electrons than protons and so attracts positive objects, for example a rubbed balloon
- Specialized
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6.2
A buildup of electricity on the surface of an object that does not let it move
- Formal
2
9.0
A diplomat who acts as head of an embassy when the ambassador is away
- Archaic
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8.4
A small metal or plastic plate that people use like an early credit card to pay for goods
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3.3
A fee paid for a plane landing, take-off, parking, or use of passenger areas at an airport
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3.9
Money paid for putting equipment or services in place and making them ready
- Specialized
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3.7
A regular payment that does not change when business changes, like rent or insurance
- Specialized
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5.1
The total electric charge in a closed system stays the same
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9.9
A mass attack, especially by Japanese soldiers in World War II, where they rush the enemy while shouting 'banzai'
- Specialized
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6.7
An amount companies record each year as an expense to show equipment loses value
- Specialized
1
7.5
A payment plan that lets you keep owing money and pay over time
- Jargon
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9.2
A soldier who stays on duty after hours to deal with problems and visitors
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3.5
An amount of money residents pay regularly to cover shared building costs like cleaning and repairs
A way to buy now at a shop and pay later up to a set limit you can repay anytime
- Specialized
A machine that speeds up ions so they leave a hot gas called plasma after swapping electrons
- Archaic
A device that throws explosive charges into the sea to attack submarines from a ship
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Charge comes from an old word meaning 'to load', so it also came to mean filling a place with strong feeling. To charge a room or moment is to fill it with emotion or energy.