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Green is bad -- source of emotional charge! (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

energise

'charge' is the definition.
('charge'->'energize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

'green is bad source of emotional' is the wordplay.
'bad' indicates an anagram.
'source of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'emotional' is 'e'.
'green'+'is'='greenis'
'greenis' anagrammed gives 'energis'.
'energis'+'e'='ENERGISE'

(Other definitions for energise that I've seen before include "Stimulate activity" , "To banish inertia" , "Give active force" , "Give vitality to" , "Give power to" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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