RECHARGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recharge mean? 

• RECHARGE (verb)
  The verb RECHARGE has 2 senses:

1. load anew

2. charge anew

  Familiarity information: RECHARGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECHARGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recharge    ... he / she / it recharges   
Past simple: recharged   
Past participle: recharged   
-ing form: recharging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Load anew

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

recharge; reload

Context example:

She reloaded the gun carefully

Hypernyms (to "recharge" is one way to...):

charge; load (provide (a device) with something necessary)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Charge anew

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

recharge a battery

Hypernyms (to "recharge" is one way to...):

charge (energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The batteries are able to recharge by electrochemically reinserting a large number of electrons.

(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)

Fossil groundwater is non-renewable and won't be recharged in human time scales

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)

For centuries, this practice of recharging mountain aquifers has been conducted in several regions of our planet, although the most-documented cases are found in the high-Andean regions of Peru and Ecuador.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)

For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now that I had a moment to myself, I lost no time in changing the priming of my pistol, and then, having one ready for service, and to make assurance doubly sure, I proceeded to draw the load of the other and recharge it afresh from the beginning.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The discovery of tritium traces in deep fossil aquifers, which were originally recharged by precipitation more than 12,000 years ago, is being attributed by the researchers to contamination by ‘younger’ groundwater closer to the earth’s surface.

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)

A multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME) and the Universities of Granada, Cologne, and Lisbon has demonstrated that the traditional careo underground aquifer recharge system used in Sierra Nevada is the oldest in Europe.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)