charge someone with something Definition

charge
verb charged, charging

1. To ask for an amount as the price of something.
2. To ask someone to pay an amount for something.
3. To accuse someone officially of a crime.

Thesaurus: accuse, indict, censure, impute.
intr
4. To rush at someone or something in attack.
5. To rush.
6. formal
To officially order someone to do something.
Example: She was charged to appear in court
Thesaurus: command, order, direct, instruct.
7. To load (a gun, furnace, etc) with explosive, fuel, etc.
8. formal & old use
To fill up.
Example: charge your glasses
intr
9. Said of a battery, capacitor, etc: to take up or store electricity.
10. To cause (a battery, capacitor, etc) to take up or store electricity.
11. To load or saturate.

Example: The liquid is made fizzy by charging it with carbon dioxide
12. To fill.

Example: The moment was charged with emotion

noun

1. An amount charged; a price, fee, or cost.

Thesaurus: price, cost, expense, amount, value.
2. Control, care or responsibility.

Example: in charge of repairs
Thesaurus: care, custody, responsibility, brief, management, concern.
3. Supervision or guardianship.

Example: The police arrived and took charge
4. Something or someone, eg a child, that is in one's care.
5. Something of which one is accused.

Example: a charge of murder
Thesaurus: accusation, indictment, blame, complaint.
6. A rushing attack.
7. A deficiency or excess of electrons on a particular object, giving rise to a positive or negative charge, respectively.

Form: electrical charge (also)
8. The total amount of electricity stored by an insulated object such as an accumulator or capacitor.
9. A quantity of material appropriate for filling something.
10. An amount of explosive, fuel, etc, for loading into a gun, furnace, etc.
11. An order.

Thesaurus: instruction, order, bidding, direction, command, directive, demand.
12. A task, duty or burden.
13. A debt or financial liability.

Idiom: press charges (prefer charges)

To charge someone officially with a crime, etc.

Etymology: 13c: French, from Latin carricare to load a vehicle.

Phrasal Verb: charge someone with something

To accuse them of (a crime, etc).

Phrasal Verb: be charged with something

To be given the task or responsibility of doing it.

Phrasal Verb: charge something to someone

To record it as a debt against them.
Example: Charge the breakages to me