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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In heraldry: Bearing a charge: as, a fesse charged with three roses. Serving as a charge: as, three roses charged upon a fesse.
- Overcharged or exaggerated.
- In art, heavily painted; over-expressed.
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of charge.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. fraught with great emotion
- adj. capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy
- adj. of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge
- adj. supplied with carbon dioxide
Etymologies
- Middle English chargen, to load, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus, Gallic type of wagon, of Celtic origin; see kers- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“_upon all_, it were found that some of _such_ counts -- that is, that some of the misdemeanours -- charged, must be withdrawn from the consideration of the court, by reason of defects in either the counts themselves or the findings upon them, it cannot, in many cases, be supposed that the sentence could be the same as if the court had the duty thrown upon it of punishing _all the offences charged_.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
“So, again, you can see -- we can see some very charged -- what they called charged smoke, some heavy smoke coming out of this.”
“How about “vehicle tax that has nothing to do with VMT other than the fact that what you get charged is entirely dependent upon how many miles the vehicle traveled and what kind of vehicle it is”?”
“He was spoiling for a fight that was 15 years in the future and probably never to happen — by the time prom dates start showing up, so much has taken place between father and daughter that the handoff, while charged, is more an enactment of an emotion than an experience of it — so the next thing you know, he pulls onto his street, comes across the photographer, and punches his lights out.”
“He said his accountant takes a credit on his business taxes of the tax charged from the excess cash deposits.”
“It's the story of the sysadmin charged with shutting down the first and only functional AI, which no one can figure out a reason ...”
“The other reason you're being charged is that you're asking your second lender to prepare documentation that it otherwise would not have to prepare.”
“Now that I finally understand the CFE methods of billing, any time I have checked my meter and my electrical usage, what I have been charged is in accordance with the data shown at the URL shown above.”
“He says the crime charged is “prevaracacion” — not the same, apparently, as simple “prevarication” but meaning “pronouncing deliberately wrongful decisions.””
Lists
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Kangaroo Words
Words containing letters in sequence, together or apart, that form a definition or instance of the subsuming word. E.g., conTAmINaTe = the kangaroo word. TAINT = the joey. Theme from a NYT X-word ...
encourage, chariot, precipitation, neurotic, feaster, unsightly, charisma, inheritor, masculine, honorable, contaminate, regulate and 103 more...
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How She Entered the Room
Meant to be added to the word 'in' example 'burst in'
burst, swept, came, jumped, broke, flew, flitted, billowed, gallumphed, staggered, wafted, lurched and 31 more...
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This intriguing novel .... is a taut, lyrical, ...
Crimes committed by book reviewers. Terms here are culled shamelessly from a recent New York Times blog post, and the comments that it generated.
Seven Deadly Sins
See a...poignant, compelling, taut, lyrical, spare, eschew, limn, craft, nuanced, contrived, majestic, subtle and 52 more...
oroboros ChARgeD May 17, 2008