(v): attack suddenly
(v): blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
(v): demand payment
(v): keep an account of
(v): move quickly and violently
(v): move fast
(v): assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
(v): file a formal charge against
(v): bring an accusation against; level a charge against
(v): make an accusatory claim
(v): assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing
(v): fill or load to capacity
(v): cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
(v): enter a certain amount as a charge
(v): enter as debit
(v): cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
(v): move from one place to another
(v): give over to another for care or safekeeping
(v): confer a trust upon
(v): pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
(v): give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
(v): lie down on command, of hunting dogs
(v): assume a reclining position
(v): cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
(v): move deeply
(v): place a heraldic bearing on
(v): make a painting
(v): provide (a device) with something necessary
(v): make full, also in a metaphorical sense
(v): direct into a position for use
(v): point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
(v): impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
(v): make someone do something
(v): instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
(v): give instructions or directions for some task
(v): instruct or command with authority
(v): give instructions or directions for some task
(v): attribute responsibility to
(v): attribute or credit to
(v): set or ask for a certain price
(v): fix conclusively or authoritatively
(v): cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
(v): cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
(v): energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
(v): give something useful or necessary to
(v): saturate
(v): infuse or fill completely
(n): an impetuous rush toward someone or something
(n): (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
(n): (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
(n): (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
(n): the price charged for some article or service
(n): the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
(n): the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
(n): a physical phenomenon involving electricity
(n): attention and management implying responsibility for safety
(n): the activity of protecting someone or something
(n): a special assignment that is given to a person or group
(n): a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
(n): a person committed to your care
(n): a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
(n): financial liabilities (such as a tax)
(n): anything that is owed to someone else
(n): (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
(n): (psychoanalysis) psychic energy produced by the libido
(n): the swift release of a store of affective force
(n): the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
(n): request for payment of a debt
(n): the verbal act of requesting
(n): a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
(n): an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
(n): an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
(n): a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
(n): heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
(n): emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms
(n): a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
(n): a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck
A contranym: charge--add to and charge--take away (as a fee, from your non-plethorous, underachieving wallet).
In heraldry, any device ‘charged’ or borne upon an escutcheon; a bearing.
Usage: Chaucers armes are not so meane, eyther for coolour, chardge, or particione as some will make them. (1599)