recharge one's battery

present singular third person recharges one's battery · participle present recharging one's battery · participle past recharged one's battery · past recharged one's battery

1. alternativeAlternative form of recharge one's batteries.

   Maybe I'll take a few weeks off and recharge my battery.

   2007, Deborah Smith, A Gentle Rain, BelleBooks, →ISBN, page 44

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   Fact is, when I've got a lot on my desk, I just can't enjoy four or five hours on the course. I'm too distracted to focus. Whereas a two-hour break playing my favorite game is just what I need to recharge my battery, improve my swing, and be more efficient when I get back to work.

   2011, Patricia Hannigan, Golf Girl's Little Tartan Book: How to Be True to Your Sex and Get the Most from Your Game, ABRAMS, →ISBN, page 65

   My parents knew that I needed a nap to “recharge my battery.” I started off my career with using what I learned from my childhood by taking a power nap every day during my lunch time to make sure that I was operating at 100 percent.

   2012, R.C. Scates, Bringing Peace into Your Inner Sanctuary, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 43

   After so much talking, and meeting so many people, I was wiped out. It was time to recharge my battery and go for a run.

   2012, Patrick McGlade, Six Miles Per Hour, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 253

   Joe, I have told you this many times before, but your friendship and our talks have kept me sane through this entire process. You continue to recharge my battery each time we talk.

   2014, Darryl Mace, In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 147

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see recharge, battery.

   Two or three months ago I instructed the garage to recharge my battery. This was ostensibly done, the bill rendered and paid for.

   1928, Advertising & Selling, volume 12, M.C. Robbins, page 38