charged

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑːd͡ʒd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒd/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒd

Verb

charged

1. simple past and past participle of charge
   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 164:

     Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

Derived terms

• guilty as charged

 

Adjective

charged (comparative more charged, superlative most charged)

1. Arousing strong emotion.
2. Showing or having strong emotion.
3. Having electricity.

Synonyms

• (arousing strong emotion): heated

Derived terms

• chargedness
• charged particle
• countercharged
• decharged
• electrocharged
• hypercharged
• millicharged
• minicharged
• monocharged
• multicharged
• noncharged
• turbocharged
• uncharged