charge up
Excite, agitate, stimulate, as in The new preacher can really charge up the congregation, or Planning Beth's wedding got her mom all charged up. This term originally was used for narcotic stimulation but now is used more broadly. [Slang; early 1900s]
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How to use charge up in a sentence
Insurers can charge up to 50 percent more in premiums for tobacco users.
At a feature called Hill 180, under grenade and rifle fire, he led two platoons in a bayonet charge up the hill.
They must march out upon the plain, charge up the hillsides, and receive the fire of a sheltered foe.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.The French cavalry, unable to charge up the heights, had fallen back.
Under Wellington's Command | G. A. HentyIn a few moments, they had it pouring its energies into the coil-bank so that they could charge up the central drive coil.
Islands of Space | John W Campbell
I plugged it back in and gave it a minute or two to charge up before trying to power it up again.
Little Brother | Cory DoctorowAt one time, during that fight, the rebels tried to charge up the hill from "Bottom's farm-house," but were repulsed.
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