Word Meanings - CHARGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or

Additional info about word: CHARGE

1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 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. Moses . . . charged you to love the Lord your God. Josh. xxii. 5. Cromwell, I charge thee, fing away ambition. Shak. 3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for. When land shal be charged by any lien. Kent. 4. To fix or demand as a prince; as, he charges two dollars a barrelk for apples. 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. 6. To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge. No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime On native loth and negligence of time. Dryden. 7. To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against person or thing); to lay the responsibility at the door of. If the did that wrong you charge with. Tennyson. 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. Their battering cannon charged to the mouths. Shak. 9. To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHARGE)

• Accusation
• Charge
• indictment
• imputation
• impeachment
• arraignment
• Accuse
• incriminate
• impeach
• arraign
• tax
• taunt
• censure
• cite
• summon
• criminate
• Arraign
• Summon
• accuse
• indict
• charge
• Ascribe
• Assign
• attribute
• impute
• refer
• render
• allege
• Attribute Refer
• assign
• associate
• apply
• ascribe
• connect

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CHARGE)

• Divorce
• disconnect
• dissociate
• dissever

Related words: (words related to CHARGE)

• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• INDICTEE
  A person indicted.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• REFER
  1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
• ASCRIBE
  1. To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author. The finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. Addison. 2. To
• DISSOCIATE
  To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward. (more info)
• REFERENTIAL
  Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• INDICTER
  One who indicts.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• ASSOCIATE
  1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
• IMPEACH
  To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. Note: When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.