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noun
- slanderous defamation
- a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
- a blemish made by dirt
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- (medicine) A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.
- (radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- (biology) A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
- (countable, uncountable) A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- A mark made by smearing.
verb
- charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
- make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
- stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
- (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- (transitive) To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- (transitive) To make something dirty.
- (transitive) To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- (transitive) To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- (transitive) (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- (transitive) To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
- (intransitive) To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- (transitive, derogatory) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
verb
noun
- the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief they seek
- a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
- (countable) A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
- (countable) A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
- (countable) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
- (uncountable) The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.
- (law, countable) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
- (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
- (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- (transitive) To kill brutally.
- (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption
adj
noun
- (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- a brutal indiscriminate murderer
- a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
- a retailer of meat
- someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
noun
- The act of defaming or sullying.
- Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion.
- (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
- (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
- changing to a darker color
verb
noun
- (law) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
- A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
- An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
- an address to an academic meeting or seminar
- an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- (intransitive, ergative) To become soiled or tarnished.
- (transitive) To corrupt or damage.
- (transitive) To soil or stain; to dirty.
noun
noun
- the act of making accusations
- the act of preferring
- Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
- A mixture of flour, water and yeast that is allowed to ferment prior to another baking process
- (now historical) Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product.
- A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
noun
verb
- To defame or sully.
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
- (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become black.
- (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
- make or become black
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
noun
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An instruction.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
- (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
- (property law) A mortgage.
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- the price charged for some article or service
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- request for payment of a debt
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- a person committed to your care
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
verb
- make an accusatory claim
- (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To impute or ascribe.
- (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
- (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
- (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
- (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- demand payment
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- move quickly and violently
- direct into a position for use
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- attribute responsibility to
- set or ask for a certain price
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- instruct or command with authority
- fill or load to capacity
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- place a heraldic bearing on
- saturate
- file a formal charge against
- enter a certain amount as a charge
noun
- an accusation of wrongdoing
- a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense
- (countable, uncountable) An accusation of wrongdoing; a criticism or condemnation.
- Evidence of failure or poor performance.
- (law) An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury.
- (law) The official legal document outlining the charges concerned; bill of indictment.
adj
- Of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious.
- Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.
- (figurative) Exceeding reasonable limits; outrageous.
- Of a person: delighted by scandal.
- (law) Of information, a statement, etc.: not pertinent to a matter; irrelevant, and bringing the court into disrepute.
- giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
adv
noun
- the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander)
- a petty disparagement
- The act of detracting something, or something detracted; taking away; diminution.
- (Roman Catholicism) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.
- A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
noun
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
- (uncountable) Falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another.
- (countable) A false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing.
verb
noun
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
- The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
noun
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
- An action or a program which imposes deep reductions in expenditure.
- A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation.
noun
- (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- An act of deceiving someone.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- the quality of being fraudulent
- the act of deceiving
- a misleading falsehood
noun
- slanderous defamation
- a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
- a blemish made by dirt
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- (medicine) A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.
- (radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- (biology) A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
- (countable, uncountable) A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- A mark made by smearing.
verb
- charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
- make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
- stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
- (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- (transitive) To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- (transitive) To make something dirty.
- (transitive) To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- (transitive) To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- (transitive) (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- (transitive) To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
- (intransitive) To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- (transitive, derogatory) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
verb
noun
- the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief they seek
- a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
- (countable) A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
- (countable) A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
- (countable) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
- (uncountable) The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.
- (law, countable) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.
noun
- The act of defaming or sullying.
- Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion.
- (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
- (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
- changing to a darker color
verb
noun
- (law) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
- A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
- An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
- an address to an academic meeting or seminar
- an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting
noun
noun
- the act of making accusations
- the act of preferring
- Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
- A mixture of flour, water and yeast that is allowed to ferment prior to another baking process
- (now historical) Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product.
- A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
noun
noun
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An instruction.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
- (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
- (property law) A mortgage.
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- the price charged for some article or service
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- request for payment of a debt
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- a person committed to your care
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
verb
- make an accusatory claim
- (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To impute or ascribe.
- (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
- (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
- (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
- (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- demand payment
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- move quickly and violently
- direct into a position for use
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- attribute responsibility to
- set or ask for a certain price
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- instruct or command with authority
- fill or load to capacity
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- place a heraldic bearing on
- saturate
- file a formal charge against
- enter a certain amount as a charge
noun
- an accusation of wrongdoing
- a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense
- (countable, uncountable) An accusation of wrongdoing; a criticism or condemnation.
- Evidence of failure or poor performance.
- (law) An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury.
- (law) The official legal document outlining the charges concerned; bill of indictment.
noun
- the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander)
- a petty disparagement
- The act of detracting something, or something detracted; taking away; diminution.
- (Roman Catholicism) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.
- A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
noun
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
- (uncountable) Falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another.
- (countable) A false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing.
verb
noun
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
- The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
- an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
noun
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
- An action or a program which imposes deep reductions in expenditure.
- A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation.
noun
- (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
- An act of deceiving someone.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
- An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
- the quality of being fraudulent
- the act of deceiving
- a misleading falsehood
verb
noun
verb
noun
- the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief they seek
- a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
- (countable) A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
- (countable) A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
- (countable) Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
- (uncountable) The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.
- (law, countable) A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
- (intransitive) To work as a butcher.
- (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
- (transitive) To kill brutally.
- (transitive) To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition.
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption
adj
noun
- (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- a brutal indiscriminate murderer
- a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
- a retailer of meat
- someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
noun
- slanderous defamation
- a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope
- a blemish made by dirt
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- (medicine) A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.
- (radio, television, uncountable) Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- (biology) A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
- (countable, uncountable) A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- A mark made by smearing.
verb
- charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
- make a smudge on; soil by smudging
- cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it
- stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
- (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- (transitive) To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- (transitive) To make something dirty.
- (transitive) To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- (transitive) To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- (transitive) (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- (transitive) To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
- (intransitive) To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- (transitive, derogatory) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
- place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- (intransitive, ergative) To become soiled or tarnished.
- (transitive) To corrupt or damage.
- (transitive) To soil or stain; to dirty.
verb
- To defame or sully.
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
- (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become black.
- (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
- make or become black
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
noun
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An instruction.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
- (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
- (property law) A mortgage.
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- the price charged for some article or service
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- request for payment of a debt
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- a person committed to your care
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
verb
- make an accusatory claim
- (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To impute or ascribe.
- (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
- (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
- (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
- (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- demand payment
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- move quickly and violently
- direct into a position for use
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- attribute responsibility to
- set or ask for a certain price
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- instruct or command with authority
- fill or load to capacity
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- place a heraldic bearing on
- saturate
- file a formal charge against
- enter a certain amount as a charge
adj
- Of speech or writing: defamatory, malicious.
- Of a thing: causing or having the nature of a scandal; regarded as so immoral or wrong as to be extremely disgraceful; despicable, shameful.
- (figurative) Exceeding reasonable limits; outrageous.
- Of a person: delighted by scandal.
- (law) Of information, a statement, etc.: not pertinent to a matter; irrelevant, and bringing the court into disrepute.
- giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation