| auberge | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge |
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| 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 |
| concierge | (noun) a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter | - |
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| converge | (verb) come together so as to form a single product | - |
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| (verb) move or draw together at a certain location | - |
| (verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit | - |
| countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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| (noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
| demiurge | (noun) a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe | - |
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| deterge | (verb) wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body | - |
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| dirge | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, lament, requiem, threnody |
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| 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 |
| disgorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: shed, spill |
| diverge | (verb) move or draw apart | - |
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| (verb) extend in a different direction | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, vary |
| (verb) have no limits as a mathematical series | - |
| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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| emerge | (verb) come out into view, as from concealment | - |
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| (verb) become known or apparent | - |
| (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, egress, go forth, issue |
| (verb) come up to the surface of or rise | - |
| (verb) happen or occur as a result of something | Synonyms: come forth |
| engorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| 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 |
| forge | (noun) a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering | Synonyms: smithy |
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| (noun) furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping | - |
| (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: hammer |
| (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, fake |
| (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: fashion |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: form, mold, mould, shape, work |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, invent |
| (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: spirt, spurt |
| (verb) move ahead steadily | - |
| gorge | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gullet, oesophagus |
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| (noun) a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it) | - |
| (noun) a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) | Synonyms: defile |
| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
| 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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| merge | (verb) become one | Synonyms: unify, unite |
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| (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, mix |
| (verb) join or combine | Synonyms: unify, unite |
| 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 |
| overgorge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| overlarge | (adjective) excessively large | Synonyms: too large |
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| purge | (noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purging |
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| (noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purging |
| (noun) an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place | - |
| (verb) excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) | - |
| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| (verb) rid of impurities | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, scour |
| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purify, sanctify |
| (verb) clear of a charge | - |
| (verb) oust politically | - |
| recharge | (verb) charge anew | - |
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| (verb) load anew | Synonyms: reload |
| reforge | (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: recast, remodel |
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| regorge | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| resurge | (verb) rise again | - |
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| scourge | (noun) a whip used to inflict punishment | Synonyms: flagellum |
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| (noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: terror, threat |
| (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, curse, nemesis |
| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
| (verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
| (verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
| serge | (noun) a twilled woolen fabric | - |
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| 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 | - |
| splurge | (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: binge, orgy |
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| (noun) an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.) | - |
| (verb) be showy or ostentatious | - |
| (verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: fling |
| spurge | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | - |
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| submerge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, inundate |
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| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, overwhelm |
| (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerse |
| (verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerse |
| 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 | - |
| surge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: upsurge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, upsurge |
| (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: billow |
| (verb) see one's performance improve | - |
| (verb) rise rapidly | Synonyms: soar, soar up, soar upwards, zoom |
| (verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, heave |
| (verb) rise or move forward | Synonyms: tide |
| (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: scend |
| thaumaturge | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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| undercharge | (noun) an insufficient charge | - |
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| (noun) a price that is too low | - |
| (verb) charge (someone) too little money | - |
| upsurge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: surge |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, surge |
| urge | (noun) a strong restless desire | Synonyms: itch |
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| (noun) an instinctive motive | Synonyms: impulse |
| (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: exhort, press, urge on |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge on |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, recommend |
| verge | (noun) a grass border along a road | - |
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| (noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: brink |
| (noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, wand |
| (noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, threshold |
| (verb) border on; come close to | - |