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charging

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɪŋ//

An act or process of charging (as of a battery).

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of chargepresent participle and gerund of charge

noun

  1. 1

    An act or process of charging (as of a battery).

  2. 2

    An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

    Smith is called for charging, and the Nimrods will get the ball.

Forms

plural
chargings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).