charged
Americanadjective
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intense; impassioned.
an emotionally charged speech.
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fraught with emotion.
the charged atmosphere of the room.
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capable of producing violent emotion, arousing controversy, etc..
the highly charged issue of birth control.
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Electricity. pertaining to a particle, body, or system possessing a net amount of positive or negative electric charge.
Other Word Forms
- well-charged adjective
Etymology
Origin of charged
1275–1325; Middle English, for sense “laden, filled”; 1785–95 charged for def. 1; charge, -ed 2
Example Sentences
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Pysher’s case is the second one charged in less than a week in the Central District of California.
From Los Angeles Times
Many people probably don’t know it’s illegal for a moving company to increase its price so significantly, and therefore they don’t push back when they get charged more.
From MarketWatch
Saeed Habiba, the head of Iran’s Student Affairs Organization, said universities won’t tolerate what he called obscenities and illegal acts and that some students have been summoned and charged with unspecified offenses.
That doesn’t automatically mean they are charged with committing a crime.
The victim's brother Billy Blue said it was "an absolute disgrace" that to this day no-one had been charged over the crime, suggesting it was known who the culprit was.
From BBC
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