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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
charged
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be charged with assault
▪ He ended up in court charged with assault.
be charged with conspiracy (=be formally accused of it)
▪ The women were charged with conspiracy to supply heroin.
charged with burglary
▪ He was charged with burglary.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
positively charged
▪ According to the theory, negatively charged electrons within atoms orbit around positively charged nuclei.
▪ Cationic detergents: ionise in solution with the active ion being positively charged.
▪ Hence when a current is applied, the positively charged ions move toward the cathode carrying water molecules with them.
▪ Sodium has a strong tendency to lose an electron and become the positively charged ion Na.
▪ The helium atom without its electrons is known as an alpha particle, and is therefore positively charged.
▪ These positively charged ions are themselves highly hydrated.
▪ These fixed negative charges attract a layer of residual positively charged ions which are free to move within the water.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Abortion is still a very emotionally charged issue in the U.S.
▪ In a highly charged press conference, Armstrong defended his attack on the children.
▪ The already charged atmosphere erupted into violence when police told the crowd to disperse.
▪ The elections took place in the highly charged atmosphere of mass demonstrations.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Charged

Charge \Charge\ (ch[aum]rj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charged (ch[aum]rjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Charging.] [OF. chargier, F. charger, fr. LL. carricare, fr. L. carrus wagon. Cf. Cargo, Caricature, Cark, and see Car.]

  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, fling away ambition.
    --Shak.

  3. To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.

    When land shall be charged by any lien.
    --Kent.

  4. To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel 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 sloth and negligence of time.
    --Dryden.

  7. To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.

    If he did that wrong you charge him 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.

  10. (Her.) To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.

  11. To call to account; to challenge. [Obs.]

    To charge me to an answer.
    --Shak.

  12. To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.

    Charged our main battle's front.
    --Shak.

    Syn: To intrust; command; exhort; instruct; accuse; impeach; arraign. See Accuse.

Wiktionary
charged

vb. (en-past of: charge)

WordNet
charged
  1. adj. of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge; "charged particles"; "a charged battery" [ant: uncharged]

  2. fraught with great emotion; "an atmosphere charged with excitement"; "an emotionally charged speech" [syn: supercharged]

  3. supplied with carbon dioxide [syn: aerated]

  4. capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy; "the highly charged issue of abortion"

Wikipedia
Charged (album)

Charged is the second full-length album by stoner rock band Nebula. It was released in 2001 and was the band's last album on Sub Pop records before switching to Liquor And Poker. This is also the last album featuring former Fu Manchu bandmate, Mark Abshire, on Bass. The third track Giant was featured in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. The Japanese release on Sweet Nothing contains the bonus tracks Humbucker (from the Clearlight single) and Cosmic Egg (from the Do it Now single).

Charged (Toshinori Kondo, Eraldo Bernocchi and Bill Laswell album)

Charged is a collaborative album by Eraldo Bernocchi, Toshinori Kondo and Bill Laswell, released on June 28, 1999 by Apollo Records.

Usage examples of "charged".

Only the year before, in 1769, Adams had defended four American sailors charged with killing a British naval officer who had boarded their ship with a press gang to grab them for the British navy.

Appointed by Mother Aglee as Overlady of Five, charged with coordinating the peaceful integration of the aliens into the life of the planet, she sought out Bertt, explained all to him, asked respectfully for his assistance.

He is formally charged with the attempted murder of his owner and the actual murder of Amri Utasdatter, also a slave.

How may we know what is done to the animals thus traced to the door of every laboratory without being charged with impeding the legitimate researches of science?

It is charged that to-day, in American physiological laboratories and in medical schools as well, helpless animals are subjected to torture.

He quit after the disclosure of his friendship with Asil Nadir, a businessman who fled to Turkish-occupied north Cyprus charged with serious fraud offences connected with his Polly Peck group.

About the year 1611-12 we find him charged with a mission to the Provincial at Asuncion to disabuse him of a report which had been carried there that the Jesuits of Guayra were garnering in no fruit from all their labours in the wilds.

I no sooner looked into this more ample statement than I detected the work of an impostor, and as, in the preparation of my work on Early Voyages to Terra Australis, my memory had become charged with all the details of the subject, I was able to trace not only the documents which, as he was not a discoverer in reality, supplied him with the materials for being a discoverer on paper, but also blunders in those documents of which I was cognizant, but he had not been, and which, as he had been himself deceived, clearly betrayed the utter falsity of his statements.

Winder, Commissary General of Prisoners, Baltimorean renegade and the malign genius to whose account should be charged the deaths of more gallant men than all the inquisitors of the world ever slew by the less dreadful rack and wheel.

The touching spectacle was presented of bearded veterans, who had charged in a score of combats, kneeling devoutly under the rustic roofs of evergreens, built for religious gatherings, and praying to the God of battles who had so long protected them.

Although Freud has been famously charged with backing away from the cultural implications of this theory, when he proposed the Oedipus complex and thereby transferred the libidinal activity from the parents to the children, we still find the etiology thesis alive and well in contemporary thinking about trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, as evidenced in the work of Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk.

A bull-voiced professor of biotechnics charged into the debate, his own Sunmark blazing through a shaggy beard.

He threw the fingernail clippers across the room and charged at Bollinger with such fury that he surprised even Stenner.

Republicans of the past and of the future, to throw stones at good citizens in order to conceal the misconduct of the old Bonapartist Administration which still is charged with the care of our armies.

By the time Judge Langley had returned to the bench and reconvened the court the room was more than three-quarters filled with spectators waiting breathlessly in an atmosphere charged with anticipation.