Oliver's body lost its charge of anger and accusation with an exhaled breath.

At that setting it would last for a hundred hours or so before losing its charge.

He's like a battery, losing his charge all the time, getting weaker and weaker.

I yawned; the word had lost its charge for me, rather.

A final curiosity of borrowing is that the words sometimes lose their emotional charge when conveyed overseas.

"Only thing we can do is to lose our charge," Kirk said.

He was afraid that he might have lost his physical charge, but it was not so.

If the motor is turned off too soon, the battery may lose its new charge.

The battery lost its charge, so the radio doesn't work.

When they venture at last to come and confess they've lost their charge I shall be trembling with them.