Definitions from Wiktionary (CHARGE)

▸ noun:  The amount of money levied for a service.
▸ noun:  (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
▸ noun:  A forceful forward movement.
▸ noun:  An accusation.
▸ noun:  An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
▸ noun:  An accusation by a person or organization.
▸ noun:  (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
▸ noun:  The scope of someone's responsibility.
▸ noun:  Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
▸ noun:  A load or burden; cargo.
▸ noun:  An instruction.
▸ noun:  (property law) A mortgage.
▸ noun:  (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
▸ noun:  (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
▸ noun:  (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
▸ noun:  (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
▸ noun:  (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
▸ noun:  (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
▸ noun:  (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
▸ noun:  (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
▸ noun:  (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
▸ verb:  To assign a duty or responsibility to.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
▸ verb:  (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
▸ verb:  (transitive, dated) To sell (something) at a given price.
▸ verb:  (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
▸ verb:  (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
▸ verb:  To impute or ascribe.
▸ verb:  To call to account; to challenge.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
▸ verb:  To ornament with or cause to bear.
▸ verb:  (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
▸ verb:  (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
▸ verb:  (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
▸ verb:  (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
▸ verb:  (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
▸ verb:  (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
▸ noun:  Short for CHARGE syndrome. [A rare syndrome caused by a genetic disorder, usually involving coloboma of the eye, heart defects, atresia of the nasal choanae, retardation of growth and/or development, genital and/or urinary abnormalities, and ear abnormalities and deafness.]
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