supercharged
English
Adjective
supercharged (not comparable)
- Equipped with a supercharger.
- Synonym: blown
- Coordinate terms: turbocharged; superturbocharged, turbosupercharged, twincharged
- (figurative) Boosted.
- 2022 November 10, Patricia Mazzei, “With Runaway Win, DeSantis’s Political Career Becomes Supercharged”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- On Tuesday, every Republican running for statewide office won by at least 16 points, leaving little doubt that Florida is Republican country — and that Mr. DeSantis’s political career has become supercharged.
- (heraldry) Debruised, surmounted.
- 1729, Abel Boyer, Le Grand théâtre de l'honneur et de noblesse [assisted by John Innes] Fr. & Eng., page 219:
- [...] And over all, an Inescutcheon Azure, the whole supercharged by a Saltire Argent.
- 1894, Max Rooses, Catalogue of the Plantin-Moretus Museum:
- The Moretuses took as their arms : Of gold with an eagle of sable charged upon his breast with a scutcheon of gules, supercharged with a star radiating with gold on a champaign checked with azure and five strokes silver.
- 1897, American Numismatic Society, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, page 39:
- [...] is a blue cross supercharged with one of red, the whole enclosed by a blue [...]
Verb
supercharged
- simple past and past participle of supercharge
- 2014 April 13, Nick Bilton, “Bend it, charge it, dunk it: Graphene, the material of tomorrow”, in The New York Times:
- Graphene could change the electronics industry, ushering in flexible devices, supercharged quantum computers, electronic clothing and computers that can interface with the cells in your body.
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