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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (of e.g. an engine) having the power increased by fitting with a supercharger
2: fraught with great emotion; "an atmosphere charged with excitement"; "an emotionally charged speech" [syn: charged, supercharged]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Supercharge Su`per*charge", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Supercharged; p. pr. & vb. n. Supercharging.] [Pref. super- + charge. Cf. Surcharge.] (Her.) To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If a car engine is supercharged, it has more air than normal forced into it so that the petrol burns more quickly and the car has more power. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

bloated, burdened, bursting, charged, choked, congested, crammed, crowded, distended, drenched, filled to overflowing, fraught, freighted, full-charged, full-fraught, glutted, gorged, heavy-laden, hyperemic, in spate, jam-packed, jammed, laden, loaded, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, plethoric, ready to burst, running over, satiated, saturated, soaked, stuffed, stuffed up, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swollen