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Charged
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- 1 Arousing strong emotion.
"a charged issue in American politics"
- 2 Showing or having strong emotion.
"an emotionally charged plea"
- 3 Fraught with emotion; tense.
"It was an emotionally charged moment when President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of the US Congress for the first time during his administration. It was also a charged moment because of failing economies in the US and around the world. Congress and the public waited to hear how he proposed to help solve the problem. President Obama suggested several strategies[…]"
- 4 Having electricity.
"charged particles"
- 1 of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge wordnet
- 2 fraught with great emotion wordnet
- 3 capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy wordnet
- 4 supplied with carbon dioxide wordnet
- 1 simple past and past participle of charge form-of, participle, past
"Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?"
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