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Charged vs Charred - What's the difference?

charged | charred |

As verbs the difference between charged and charred

is that charged is past tense of charge while charred is past tense of char.

As an adjective charred is

burnt, carbonized.

charged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (charge)
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=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?}}

    charred

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (char)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Burnt, carbonized.