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CHARGE
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
C
3
H
4
A
1
R
1
G
2
E
1
Σ
12
Definitions
Verb
- saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to charge my car battery"
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on; "charge a conductor"
- set or ask for a certain price; "How much do you charge for lunch?"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage"
- attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience"
- instruct or command with authority; "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem"
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged the director with indifference"
- make an accusatory claim; "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased"
- file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle; "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork"
- direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"
- fill or load to capacity; "charge the wagon with hay"
- provide (a device) with something necessary; "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera"
- place a heraldic bearing on; "charge all weapons, shields, and banners"
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt; "Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?"
- demand payment; "Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
- enter a certain amount as a charge; "he charged me $15"
- give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
Noun
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message"
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge"
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains"
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny"
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving"
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury"
- request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month"
- the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge"
- a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street"
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons; "the battery needed a fresh charge"
- the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge"
- financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate"
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word CHARGE
Yes, CHARGE is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 12 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
CHARGE is a 6-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 4 consonants.