charged meaning

Definition of charged in English Dictionary

VerbBFchargeSGchargesPRcharging
1. simple past tense and past participle of charge.
  1. 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?
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1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - I'm pressing charges against you for assaulting me.
  - For pump energies below the charge transfer gap, photon absorption by phonon assisted multimagnon excitation feeds energy directly into the magnetic system which is brought to a non-equilibrium state.
  - He was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
  - Chow has been rearraigned, and has pleaded not guilty to both new charges.
  - The testimony is not sufficient to support the charges.
  - England wrapped up a five-wicket victory in the first Test as a stand of 132 between Alastair Cook and Ian Bell saw off an early West Indies charge.