Clues for the word "CHARGE"
We've had 118 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 156 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 08, 2025.
Definition of charge
- v. t. - To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
- v. t. - To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
- v. t. - To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
- v. t. - To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars a barrel for apples.
- v. t. - To place something to the account of as a debt; to debit, as, to charge one with goods. Also, to enter upon the debit side of an account; as, to charge a sum to one.
- v. t. - To impute or ascribe; to lay to one's charge.
- v. t. - To accuse; to make a charge or assertion against (a person or thing); to lay the responsibility (for something said or done) at the door of.
- v. t. - To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to charge a gun; to charge an electrical machine, etc.
- v. t. - To ornament with or cause to bear; as, to charge an architectural member with a molding.
- v. t. - To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.
- v. t. - To call to account; to challenge.
- v. t. - To bear down upon; to rush upon; to attack.
- v. i. - To make an onset or rush; as, to charge with fixed bayonets.
- v. i. - To demand a price; as, to charge high for goods.
- v. i. - To debit on an account; as, to charge for purchases.
- v. i. - To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.
- v. t. - A load or burder laid upon a person or thing.
- v. t. - A person or thing commited or intrusted to the care, custody, or management of another; a trust.
- v. t. - Custody or care of any person, thing, or place; office; responsibility; oversight; obigation; duty.
- v. t. - Heed; care; anxiety; trouble.
- v. t. - Harm.
- v. t. - An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
- v. t. - An address (esp. an earnest or impressive address) containing instruction or exhortation; as, the charge of a judge to a jury; the charge of a bishop to his clergy.
- v. t. - An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
- v. t. - Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural.
- v. t. - The price demanded for a thing or service.
- v. t. - An entry or a account of that which is due from one party to another; that which is debited in a business transaction; as, a charge in an account book.
- v. t. - That quantity, as of ammunition, electricity, ore, fuel, etc., which any apparatus, as a gun, battery, furnace, machine, etc., is intended to receive and fitted to hold, or which is actually in it at one time
- v. t. - The act of rushing upon, or towards, an enemy; a sudden onset or attack, as of troops, esp. cavalry; hence, the signal for attack; as, to sound the charge.
- v. t. - A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.
- v. t. - A soft of plaster or ointment.
- v. t. - A bearing. See Bearing, n., 8.
- n. - Thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; -- called also charre.
- n. - Weight; import; value.
Referring Clues
- Cry at an old-fashioned battle
- Cash alternative
- Battlefield shout
- Accusation
- Pay with plastic
- What a 54-Across may do to a matador
- Club's cover
- Cavalry cry
- Cavalry command
- Use plastic
- Run at
- Cavalry exhortation
- Cavalry call
- "Attack!"
- Use a credit card
- "Go get 'em!"
- Bit of excitement
- Old battlefield shout
- Indict
- Fee
- Assertion of illegality
- Attack
- Set a price (for)
- Attack order
- Ask as a price
- Calvary command
- Alternative to cash or check
- Denounce
- Pay for, in a way
- Price
- Rush at
- Battlefield shout of old
- Pay by credit card
- Cry to the cavalry
- Jolt
- Cavalry attack
- Attack the matador
- Bill entry
- ___ card (alternative to cash)
- Custody
- Get someone to pay for explosive
- Demand payment
- Credit card swipe
- How you buy tickets nowadays
- Storm protection
- Payment required with order
- Move quickly and violently
- Accumulation of electricity
- Rush? Do this to excess and you will
- Somebody one's looking after for a fee
- Put electricity in, but make you pay for it
- Completely fill military order
- Fill the bill!
- Rush to indict Bill
- Rush forward - cost
- Set price of heraldic design
- Accuse - rush - request payment
- Amount to pay - attack
- Legal accusation
- Safekeeping for a warhorse without a tail
- Offensive - fee
- Custody? The boss is in it!
- Prime object of care
- A minor tax
- Rush payment
- Cavalry shout
- Cost associated with Light Brigade?
- Fill up the ward
- Expense of electrical supply
- Responsibility for attack
- Accusation could be 18
- Cleaning lady has hugest heart attack
- Attack the accusation
- Cost of fish, say, on the rise
- Sortie
- Guardian has this price
- Make someone pay for accumulation of electricity
- Cost of assault?
- The price of fish thrown back, say
- Deliver an official injunction in custody
- Cleaner, for example, put up rate
- Attack daily, say, from the rear
- Terrible rage after child makes accusation
- Care order
- Attack on the community?
- Demand money for attack
- Attack on bill
- Fill the ward
- Fill up and put it on your account
- Load
- Be given credit for the attack
- Financial liability could be explosive
- The accusation is that you exact money from
- Tax electricity
- Cry on the battlefield
- Put some juice into
- Accuse
- Get loaded and make accusations
- Pay with a credit card
- How much the daily gets is halved
- Cost associated with Light Brigade?
- A thrill for the protégé
- Dead battery's need
- The rush for money
- Cost of a military action?
- A minor attack
- Make you pay for, when you order
- Rush to fill up
- A minor accusation
- Price of tea at some stage
- See 3-Down
- Imbue with energy
- Replenish electrically
- Low battery's need
- Power up, like an electric vehicle
- Word with electric or criminal
- Plug in
- A thrill for the protégé
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 04, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 29, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 28, 2025
- Mirror Mini - August 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 01, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - July 18, 2025
- Daily American - June 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 31, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 01, 2024
- LA Times - October 09, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 25, 2024
- Mirror Mini - September 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 12, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 12, 2024
- Daily American - February 02, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 16, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - January 10, 2024
- New York Times - January 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 27, 2023
- USA Today - November 10, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 20, 2023
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