Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Charged or loaded to the full; ready to be exploded or discharged.
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Examples
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Engines are full-charged and we can run on them for weeks.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978
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Engines are full-charged and we can run on them for weeks.
Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978
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She had been prepared to kill herself at need; but her full-charged weapons emptied themselves futilely against a massive lock and she threw her vial of poison across the corridor and into an empty cell.
Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954
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At the time of which we write, the opinion of the local magistracy and that of the authorities at Dublin Castle was that Cork was a full-charged mine of "treason."
Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various
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Single phrases in the great scenes of the Sagas are full-charged with meaning to a degree hardly surpassed in any literature, certainly not in the literatures of medieval Europe.
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The heroine, for instance, glides into life full-charged with rank, virtues, a name three-syllabled, and a white dress that never needs washing, ready to sail through dangers dire into a triumphant haven of matrimony; -- all the aristocrats have high foreheads and cold blue eyes; all the peasants are old women, miraculously grateful, in neat check aprons, or sullen-browed insurgents planning revolts in caves.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various
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The renegade did know weapons, and he studied these two with care, from the worn, rough-checkered grips and full-charged magazines to the burned, scarred, deeply-pitted orifices.
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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This is as full-charged a portrait of human depravity as the gloomiest misanthrope could wish for.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 347, December 20, 1828 Various
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After the expiration of a few minutes the full-charged clouds poured their deluge upon mother earth.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler
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The girl seized the wrinkled claw suddenly and pressed it with both of hers -- pressed it gratefully and with a full-charged heart.
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917
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