barge | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter |
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(verb) push one's way | Synonyms: push forward, thrust ahead |
(verb) transport by barge on a body of water | - |
charge | (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, guardianship, tutelage |
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(noun) an impetuous rush toward someone or something | - |
(noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: commission, mission |
(noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge |
(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, bearing, heraldic bearing |
(noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: complaint |
(noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: commission, direction |
(noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: billing |
(noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | Synonyms: accusation |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
(noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: cathexis |
(noun) a person committed to your care | - |
(noun) the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons | Synonyms: electric charge |
(noun) financial liabilities (such as a tax) | - |
(noun) the price charged for some article or service | - |
(verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge | - |
(verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on | - |
(verb) saturate | - |
(verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: blame |
(verb) set or ask for a certain price | - |
(verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: file, lodge |
(verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, saddle |
(verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: accuse |
(verb) make an accusatory claim | - |
(verb) instruct or command with authority | - |
(verb) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence | - |
(verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle | Synonyms: bear down |
(verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: level, point |
(verb) fill or load to capacity | - |
(verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: load |
(verb) place a heraldic bearing on | - |
(verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
(verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear |
(verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs | - |
(verb) pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt | - |
(verb) enter a certain amount as a charge | - |
(verb) demand payment | Synonyms: bill |
(verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: consign |
(verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
(verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: appoint |
countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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(noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
discharge | (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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(noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
(noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: release, waiver |
(noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: venting |
(noun) the sudden giving off of energy | - |
(noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: outpouring, run |
(noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
(noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: emission, expelling |
(noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: emission |
(verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: eject, exhaust, expel, release |
(verb) become empty or void of its content | Synonyms: empty |
(verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, exculpate, exonerate |
(verb) release from military service | Synonyms: muster out |
(verb) cause to go off | Synonyms: fire |
(verb) go off or discharge | Synonyms: fire, go off |
(verb) pour forth or release | - |
(verb) remove the charge from | - |
(verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: drop, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
(verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, dispatch |
(verb) free from obligations or duties | Synonyms: free |
enlarge | (verb) become larger or bigger | - |
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(verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, magnify |
(verb) make larger | - |
(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
large | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: big |
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(adjective) having broad power and range and scope | - |
(adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: big, prominent |
(adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, magnanimous |
(adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child |
(adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid |
(adjective) fairly large or important in effect; influential | - |
(noun) a garment size for a large person | - |
(adverb) with the wind abaft the beam | - |
(adverb) at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark) | - |
(adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, boastfully, vauntingly |
marge | (noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter | Synonyms: margarin, margarine, oleo, oleomargarine |
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overcharge | (noun) a price that is too high | - |
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(verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overload, surcharge |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
overlarge | (adjective) excessively large | Synonyms: too large |
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recharge | (verb) charge anew | - |
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(verb) load anew | Synonyms: reload |
sparge | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
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(verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sprinkle |
(verb) agitate by introducing air or compressed gas | - |
supercharge | (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, pressurize |
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(verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: advance, boost |
surcharge | (noun) an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) | - |
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(verb) show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given | - |
(verb) fill to an excessive degree | - |
(verb) place too much a load on | Synonyms: overcharge, overload |
(verb) print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote | - |
(verb) fill to capacity with people | - |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak |
(verb) charge an extra fee, as for a special service | - |
undercharge | (noun) an insufficient charge | - |
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(noun) a price that is too low | - |
(verb) charge (someone) too little money | - |