recharge
See also: rechargé
English
Etymology
From Old French rechargier, from re- + chargier.
Pronunciation
- (verb) IPA(key): /ɹiːˈtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːtʃɑː(ɹ)dʒ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb
recharge (third-person singular simple present recharges, present participle recharging, simple past and past participle recharged)
- (transitive) To charge an electric battery after its power has been consumed.
- 2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13:
- GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service.
- (intransitive) To invigorate and revitalize one's energy level by removing stressful agents for a period of time.
- August 28, 2003, Tiger Woods, interview by Todd Budnick
- My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training, and your mind gets a little tired of it, too. It's nice to be able to recharge and come back fresh for the remainder of the year.
- August 28, 2003, Tiger Woods, interview by Todd Budnick
- (transitive) To reload a gun with ammunition.
- (transitive) To add or restore water to an aquifer.
- (transitive) To request payment again from.
- 1977, United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Diagnostic Motor Vehicle Inspection Demonstration Projects, Program Engineering Support:
- Customer was recharged for doing same brake work (in November) that had been done in September. QA teams believes[sic] this work was a rip-off.
- To charge or accuse in return.
- To attack again or anew.
- 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
- They charge, recharge, and all along the sea / They drive, and squander the huge Belgian fleet
Synonyms
- (to invigorate and revitalize one's energy level by removing stressful agents): unwind
Derived terms
Translations
To charge an electric battery
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to revitalise, reinvigorate
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To reload a gun
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Noun
recharge (countable and uncountable, plural recharges)
- (uncountable) Water that has percolated from the ground surface to an aquifer.
- (countable) The process of charging (an electrical device) again.
- My phone has needed five recharges in the last month.
Derived terms
- recharge area
- recharge basin
- recharge well
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.ʃaʁʒ/
Audio (file)
Verb
recharge
- inflection of recharger:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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