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supercharge
Word definitions for supercharge in dictionaries
Wikipedia
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Supercharge were a 1970s English rock band from Liverpool , founded by singer/saxophonist Albie Donnelly and drummer Dave Irving. They had a number three hit single in Australia with "You've Gotta Get Up and Dance" in 1977.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft. 2 To make faster or more powerful. 3 (context heraldry English) To overlay one charge upon ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1919, originally of internal combustion engines, from super- + charge (v.). Related: Supercharged (1876); supercharger ; supercharging .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supercharge \Su`per*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supercharged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Supercharging .] [Pref. super- + charge. Cf. Surcharge .] (Her.) To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. increase or raise; "boost the voltage in an electrical circuit" [syn: boost , advance ] increase the pressure on a gas or liquid [syn: pressurize , pressurise ]
Usage examples of supercharge.
Below 200 feet, narcosis can supercharge the normal processing of fear, joy, sorrow, excitement, and disappointment.
No one could quite believe Dieter was so lost to self-control, yet his words hung in the supercharged air like a subcritical mass of plutonium, and they waited breathlessly for the explosion.
He was supercharged with violence, like a high-tension power line, and if we cut through his insulation, either by insulting him or talking back or giving the slightest indication that we thought ourselves superior to him, he would deliver a megavolt assault that we would never forget.
Later that morning, after a detour to the Der Bund office to pick up a bulky file stuffed with press clippings, notes, and photographs, Fitzduane found himself trailing behind the apparently supercharged Bear as the detective hummed his way through the portals, halls, rooms, corridors, and miscellaneous annexes of the City of Bern art museum.
Not only was it subtle, but there was an added benefit: seems Thorazine and the other medicines you gave him supercharged the anticholinergics.
Every living battery of block and globe and spike was supercharged and went--blooey.
Powered by a supercharged V-8 Rodeck 541-cubic-inch engine used by American drag racers.
The construction was a maze of tubular supports welded together and powered by a supercharged V-8 Rodeck, 541-cubicinch engine used by American drag racers.
Powered by a supercharged V-8 Rodeck 541-cubic-inch engineused by American drag racers.
The supercharged ambience in which he operated fit, too: big engines, flashy paint, the photos of submissive fellatrices tacked to the walls of the garage.
With a hull of aluminum and magnesium alloy, two Daimler-Benz four-stroke Diesels supercharged by twin Brown-Boveri turbo superchargers, the Disco Volante could move her hundred tons at around fifty knots, with a cruising range at that speed of around four hundred miles.
You have heard about the supercharged caro, and spies have told you about the electronic prayer wheel in the temple—.
Among them were the 1932 British Racing Green Bentley, supercharged.
With a 370-horsepower supercharged engine under the hood and computer-activated suspension and traction control under the chassis, she didn't hesitate to propel the car at speeds far above the posted limit.
This was no supercharged engine designed for high-altitude operation and the vehicle could not be making more than six or seven miles an hour up the steep slopes of the road.