"charge up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-charge up.ogg Forms: charges up [present, singular, third-person], charging up [participle, present], charged up [participle, past], charged up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} charge up (third-person singular simple present charges up, present participle charging up, simple past and past participle charged up)
  1. (transitive) To recharge, to give electrical power to something. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-charge_up-en-verb-njLkYZ~j
  2. (idiomatic) To motivate, to instill someone with determination. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-charge_up-en-verb-B7AiUZhI
  3. (LGBTQ, slang, transitive) To deliberately infect (a person) with HIV as part of bug-chasing. Tags: slang, transitive Categories (topical): LGBTQ
    Sense id: en-charge_up-en-verb-3qdKE2sr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 19 60 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 15 13 71 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 18 64 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 11 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: charge down

Inflected forms

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      "form": "charges up",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "charging up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "charged up",
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      "_dis1": "100 0 0",
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        {
          "text": "You should charge up your phone before the camping trip, as there won't be any power supplies.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To recharge, to give electrical power to something."
      ],
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        [
          "recharge",
          "recharge"
        ],
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          "power",
          "power"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To recharge, to give electrical power to something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The coach had to charge up his players with a powerful speech before the final.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To motivate, to instill someone with determination."
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        "(idiomatic) To motivate, to instill someone with determination."
      ],
      "tags": [
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
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            "Human behaviour",
            "Sex",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Reproduction",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Tim Dean, Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking:",
          "text": "The subcultural vernacular “I'll charge you up\" evokes the act of charging a battery or readying a mechanism for action; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deliberately infect (a person) with HIV as part of bug-chasing."
      ],
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        [
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          "HIV"
        ],
        [
          "bug-chasing",
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        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(LGBTQ, slang, transitive) To deliberately infect (a person) with HIV as part of bug-chasing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
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    {
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      ],
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        "To recharge, to give electrical power to something."
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        "(transitive) To recharge, to give electrical power to something."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To motivate, to instill someone with determination."
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          "type": "quote"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deliberately infect (a person) with HIV as part of bug-chasing."
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          "infect",
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          "HIV"
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        "(LGBTQ, slang, transitive) To deliberately infect (a person) with HIV as part of bug-chasing."
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Download raw JSONL data for charge up meaning in English (2.6kB)

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