Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Charged or loaded to the full; ready to be exploded or discharged.

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Examples

  • Engines are full-charged and we can run on them for weeks.

    Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978

  • Engines are full-charged and we can run on them for weeks.

    Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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