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Idioms and Phrases
Excite, agitate, stimulate, as in The new preacher can really charge up the congregation , or Planning Beth's wedding got her mom all charged up . This term originally was used for narcotic stimulation but now is used more broadly. [ Slang ; early 1900s]Example Sentences
Insurers can charge up to 50 percent more in premiums for tobacco users.
At a feature called Hill 180, under grenade and rifle fire, he led two platoons in a bayonet charge up the hill.
They must march out upon the plain, charge up the hillsides, and receive the fire of a sheltered foe.
The French cavalry, unable to charge up the heights, had fallen back.
In a few moments, they had it pouring its energies into the coil-bank so that they could charge up the central drive coil.
I plugged it back in and gave it a minute or two to charge up before trying to power it up again.
At one time, during that fight, the rebels tried to charge up the hill from "Bottom's farm-house," but were repulsed.
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