supercharge

verb

su·​per·​charge ˈsü-pər-ˌchärj 

supercharged; supercharging; supercharges

transitive verb

1

: to charge greatly or excessively (as with vigor or tension)

2

: to supply a charge to the intake of (an engine) at a pressure higher than that of the surrounding atmosphere

3

: pressurize sense 1

supercharge noun

Examples of supercharge in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Voyager 2 mission may have caught Uranus at a special time during which the ice giant's radiation belts were being supercharged with electrons accelerated by a similar process to what can drive geomagnetic storms on Earth. —Keith Cooper, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025

After all, with so much activity in your passionate fifth house of love, romance feels playful, magnetic and supercharged with passion. —Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025

Denaturalization is a rare and legally difficult process that Miller and white nationalists like Nick Fuentes have been pushing to 'supercharge' the process for years now. —Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2025

Listen to the Indicator’s Vice Week What’s supercharging data breaches? —NPR, 26 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1846, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for supercharge

• overcharge
• barge
• charge
• large
• marge
• sarge
• targe
• discharge
• enlarge
• litharge
• recharge
• surcharge