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Prosecuted vs Charged - What's the difference?

prosecuted | charged |

As verbs the difference between prosecuted and charged

is that prosecuted is past tense of prosecute while charged is past tense of charge.

prosecuted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (prosecute)
  • * 1959 , William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch , page 9
    • The Vigilante is prosecuted in Federal Court under a lynch bill and winds up in a Federal Nut House specially designed for the containment of ghosts: precise, prosaic impact of objects...washstand...door...toilet...bars...there they are...this is it...all lines cut...nothing beyond...Dead End...And the Dead End in every face...

    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?}}