Words that rhyme with serge

• charge 0
  n 1: an impetuous rush toward someone or something; "the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary"; "the battle began with a cavalry charge" 2: (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense; "he was arrested on a charge of larceny" [syn: charge, complaint] 3: the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge" 4: the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons; "the battery needed a fresh charge" [syn: charge, electric charge] 5: attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard" [syn: care, charge, tutelage, guardianship] 6: a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: mission, charge, commission] 7: a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street" 8: financial liabilities (such as a tax); "the charges against the estate" 9: (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object; "Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge" [syn: cathexis, charge] 10: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick] 11: request for payment of a debt; "they submitted their charges at the end of each month" [syn: charge, billing] 12: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: commission, charge, direction] 13: an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence; "the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving" [syn: accusation, charge] 14: heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield [syn: charge, bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing] 15: a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; "this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains" [syn: charge, burster, bursting charge, explosive charge] v 1: to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle; "he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork" [syn: charge, bear down] 2: blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against; "he charged the director with indifference" [syn: charge, accuse] 3: demand payment; "Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights" [syn: charge, bill] 4: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck] 5: assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance" [syn: appoint, charge] 6: file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife" [syn: charge, lodge, file] 7: make an accusatory claim; "The defense attorney charged that the jurors were biased" 8: fill or load to capacity; "charge the wagon with hay" [ant: discharge] 9: enter a certain amount as a charge; "he charged me $15" 10: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" [syn: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge] 11: give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage" [syn: consign, charge] 12: pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt; "Will you pay cash or charge the purchase?" [ant: pay cash] 13: lie down on command, of hunting dogs 14: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up] [ant: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize] 15: place a heraldic bearing on; "charge all weapons, shields, and banners" 16: provide (a device) with something necessary; "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera" [syn: load, charge] 17: direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me" [syn: charge, level, point] 18: impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to; "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend" [syn: charge, saddle, burden] 19: instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence 20: instruct or command with authority; "The teacher charged the children to memorize the poem" 21: attribute responsibility to; "We blamed the accident on her"; "The tragedy was charged to her inexperience" [syn: blame, charge] 22: set or ask for a certain price; "How much do you charge for lunch?"; "This fellow charges $100 for a massage" 23: cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on; "charge a conductor" 24: energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; "I need to charge my car battery" 25: saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"
• converge 0
  v 1: be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point" [syn: converge, meet] [ant: diverge] 2: approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit [ant: diverge] 3: move or draw together at a certain location; "The crowd converged on the movie star" [ant: diverge] 4: come together so as to form a single product; "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power"
• dirge 0
  n 1: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person [syn: dirge, coronach, lament, requiem, threnody]
• diverge 0
  v 1: move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here" [ant: converge] 2: have no limits as a mathematical series [ant: converge, meet] 3: extend in a different direction; "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged" [ant: converge, meet] 4: be at variance with; be out of line with [syn: deviate, vary, diverge, depart] [ant: conform]
• emerge 0
  v 1: come out into view, as from concealment; "Suddenly, the proprietor emerged from his office" 2: come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress] 3: become known or apparent; "Some nice results emerged from the study" 4: come up to the surface of or rise; "He felt new emotions emerge" 5: happen or occur as a result of something [syn: come forth, emerge]
• merge 0
  v 1: become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge" [syn: unify, unite, merge] [ant: break apart, disunify] 2: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge] 3: join or combine; "We merged our resources" [syn: unite, unify, merge]
• purge 0
  n 1: the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge [syn: purge, purging, purgation] 2: an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements [syn: purge, purging] 3: an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place; "he died in a purge by Stalin" v 1: oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime" [ant: rehabilitate] 2: clear of a charge 3: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified" [syn: purify, purge, sanctify] 4: rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind" 5: rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank" [syn: flush, scour, purge] 6: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down] 7: excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
• scourge 0
  n 1: a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor) [syn: scourge, flagellum] 2: something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life" [syn: bane, curse, scourge, nemesis] 3: a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood" [syn: terror, scourge, threat] v 1: punish severely; excoriate 2: whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" [syn: flagellate, scourge] 3: cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" [syn: lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage, scourge]
• splurge 0
  n 1: an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.) 2: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: orgy, binge, splurge] v 1: indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV" [syn: splurge, fling] 2: be showy or ostentatious
• spurge 0
  n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
• submerge 0
  v 1: sink below the surface; go under or as if under water [syn: submerge, submerse] 2: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" [syn: submerge, drown, overwhelm] 3: put under water; "submerge your head completely" [syn: submerge, submerse] 4: fill or cover completely, usually with water [syn: inundate, deluge, submerge]
• surge 0
  n 1: a sudden forceful flow [syn: rush, spate, surge, upsurge] 2: a sudden or abrupt strong increase; "stimulated a surge of speculation"; "an upsurge of emotion"; "an upsurge in violent crime" [syn: surge, upsurge] 3: a large sea wave [syn: billow, surge] v 1: rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward" [syn: billow, surge, heave] 2: rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen" [syn: soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom] 3: rise or move forward; "surging waves" [syn: tide, surge] [ant: ebb, ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out] 4: rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave; "the boats surged" [syn: scend, surge] 5: see one's performance improve; "He levelled the score and then surged ahead"
• upsurge 0
  n 1: a sudden forceful flow [syn: rush, spate, surge, upsurge] 2: a sudden or abrupt strong increase; "stimulated a surge of speculation"; "an upsurge of emotion"; "an upsurge in violent crime" [syn: surge, upsurge]
• urge 0
  n 1: an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses" [syn: urge, impulse] 2: a strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?" [syn: urge, itch] v 1: force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies" [syn: urge, urge on, press, exhort] 2: push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" [syn: recommend, urge, advocate] 3: spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" [syn: cheer, root on, inspire, urge, barrack, urge on, exhort, pep up]
• verge 0
  n 1: a region marking a boundary [syn: brink, threshold, verge] 2: the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy" [syn: verge, brink] 3: a ceremonial or emblematic staff [syn: scepter, sceptre, verge, wand] 4: a grass border along a road v 1: border on; come close to; "His behavior verges on the criminal"
• dramaturge 0
• immerge 0
• burge 0
• berge 0
• birge 0
• burdge 0
• virge 0
• reemerge 0

See also serge definition