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charged

[ chahrjd ]

adjective

  1. intense; impassioned:

    an emotionally charged speech.

  2. fraught with emotion:

    the charged atmosphere of the room.

  3. capable of producing violent emotion, arousing controversy, etc.:

    the highly charged issue of birth control.

  4. Electricity. pertaining to a particle, body, or system possessing a net amount of positive or negative electric charge.


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Other Word Forms

  • ɱ-󲹰 adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of charged1

1275–1325; Middle English, for sense “laden, filled”; 1785–95 charged fordef 1; charge, -ed 2
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She is charged with the murder of three relatives and the attempted murder of another, with the case centring on a beef wellington lunch at her house in July 2023.

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Luckily for Sarah she had a solar charger that kept her phone charged through ten hours of blackout, and helped her elderly neighbour do the same.

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It resulted in the Oricom directors as well as Hush and Cox being arrested and charged.

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Forrest was initially charged with assault to the danger of life for the attack.

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Castillo is charged with one count of murder for Lee’s death, and two counts of sexual penetration by force.

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