charged

[chahrjd]

adjective

1. intense; impassioned.

   an emotionally charged speech.

2. fraught with emotion.

   the charged atmosphere of the room.

3. capable of producing violent emotion, arousing controversy, etc..

   the highly charged issue of birth control.

4. Electricity.,  pertaining to a particle, body, or system possessing a net amount of positive or negative electric charge.

Other Word Forms

• well-charged adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of charged¹

1275–1325; Middle English, for sense “laden, filled”; 1785–95 charged for def. 1; charge, -ed ²

Example Sentences

A teenager has now been charged with 22 offences, including assault, theft, arson, criminal damage, breaching a dispersal order and racially aggravated harassment.

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During an emotionally charged event, one women stood with her back to the prime minster in protest, a black handprint painted across her mouth.

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Perth and Kinross Council has elected a new leader after the man who previously held the role was charged with embezzlement and resigned.

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Mutharika was charged with treason after being accused of being part of a plot to hide his brother's death to give him time to manoeuvre to keep Banda out of the presidency.

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Lindsay and Craig Foreman, from East Sussex, were on a motorcycle trip around the world when they were detained by Iranian authorities in January and later charged with espionage – something the family denies.

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Related Words

• emotional 
• fraught 
• intense