Scrabble & Words with friends points
- charge is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 12
- charge is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 12
- charge is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 13
Definition of charge
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense (noun)
Examples
- he was arrested on a charge of larceny
Synonyms
- complaint
- move quickly and violently (verb)
Synonyms
- buck
- shoot
- shoot down
- tear
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time (noun)
Examples
- this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains
Synonyms
- burster
- bursting charge
- explosive charge
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons (noun)
Examples
- the battery needed a fresh charge
Synonyms
- electric charge
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused (verb)
Examples
- The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks
Synonyms
- agitate
- charge up
- commove
- excite
- rouse
- turn on
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object (noun)
Examples
- Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge
Synonyms
- cathexis
- demand payment (verb)
Examples
- Will I get charged for this service?
Synonyms
- bill
- direct into a position for use (verb)
Examples
- He charged his weapon at me
Synonyms
- level
- point
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against (verb)
Examples
- he charged the director with indifference
Synonyms
- accuse
- request for payment of a debt (noun)
Examples
- they submitted their charges at the end of each month
Synonyms
- billing
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution (verb)
Synonyms
- commit
- institutionalise
- institutionalize
- send
- file a formal charge against (verb)
Examples
- The suspect was charged with murdering his wife
Synonyms
- file
- lodge
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle (verb)
Synonyms
- bear down
- give over to another for care or safekeeping (verb)
Synonyms
- consign
- provide (a device) with something necessary (verb)
Synonyms
- load
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety (noun)
Synonyms
- care
- guardianship
- tutelage
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group (noun)
Examples
- his charge was deliver a message
Synonyms
- commission
- mission
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield (noun)
Synonyms
- armorial bearing
- bearing
- heraldic bearing
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something (noun)
Examples
- the judge's charge to the jury
Synonyms
- commission
- direction
- attribute responsibility to (verb)
Examples
- The tragedy was charged to her inexperience
Synonyms
- blame
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence (noun)
Examples
- the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving
Synonyms
- accusation
- the swift release of a store of affective force (noun)
Synonyms
- bang
- boot
- flush
- kick
- rush
- thrill
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to (verb)
Examples
- He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend
Synonyms
- burden
- saddle
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to (verb)
Examples
- She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance
Synonyms
- appoint
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something (noun)
Examples
- the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary
- the battle began with a cavalry charge
- a person committed to your care (noun)
Examples
- the teacher led her charges across the street
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on (verb)
Examples
- charge a conductor
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge (verb)
Examples
- I need to charge my car battery
- enter a certain amount as a charge (verb)
Examples
- he charged me $15
- fill or load to capacity (verb)
Examples
- charge the wagon with hay
- financial liabilities (such as a tax) (noun)
Examples
- the charges against the estate
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence (verb)
- instruct or command with authority (verb)
Examples
- The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs (verb)
- make an accusatory claim (verb)
Examples
- The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt (verb)
Examples
- Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?
- place a heraldic bearing on (verb)
Examples
- charge all weapons, shields, and banners
- saturate (verb)
Examples
- The room was charged with tension and anxiety
- set or ask for a certain price (verb)
Examples
- How much do you charge for lunch?
- This fellow charges $100 for a massage
- the price charged for some article or service (noun)
Examples
- the admission charge
See definition of charge in Merriam Webster