supercharged

English

Adjective

supercharged (not comparable)

1. Equipped with a supercharger.

   Synonym: blown

   Coordinate terms: turbocharged; superturbocharged, turbosupercharged, twincharged

2. (figurative) Boosted.
   • 2022 November 10, Patricia Mazzei, “With Runaway Win, DeSantis’s Political Career Becomes Supercharged”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →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.

3. (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

1. 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^[2]:

     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.