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charge up

charge up verb: to recharge, to give electrical power to something.

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.
    • You should charge up your phone before the camping trip, as there won't be any power supplies.
  2. (idiomatic) To motivate, to instill someone with determination.
    • The coach had to charge up his players with a powerful speech before the final.
  3. (slang, transitive) To deliberately infect (a person) with HIV as part of bug-chasing.
    • The subcultural vernacular “I'll charge you up" evokes the act of charging a battery or readying a mechanism for action; […]2009, Tim Dean, Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking

Forms of charge up

third-person singular presentcharges up
present participlecharging up
past participlecharged up
pastcharged up

Questions about charge up

What does charge up mean?
Charge up means to recharge, to give electrical power to something.
What part of speech is charge up?
Charge up is a verb.
What is the past tense of charge up?
The past tense of charge up is charged up.

Words near charge up in the dictionary

  1. charge sheet
  2. charge sheets
  3. charge storage
  4. CHARGE syndrome
  5. charge the mound
  6. charge up
  7. charge-coupled device
  8. charge-coupled devices
  9. charge-density wave
  10. charge-density waves
  11. charge-hand

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