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Webster 1828 Edition


Charged

CHARGED

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Loaded; burdened; attacked; laid on; instructed; imputed; accused; placed to the debt; ordered; commanded.

Definition 2024


charged

charged

English

Verb

charged

  1. simple past tense and past participle of charge
    • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, 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?