Overcharge

Quick meaning: Overcharge is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
2. (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
3. (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
4. (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.
5. An excessive load or burden.
6. An excessive charge in an account.
7. To charge (someone) with an inflated number or degree of legal charges (for example, charging them with a more serious crime than was committed); to upcharge.

Example Sentences

to overcharge a description

October 22, 1706, Alexander Pope, letter to Mr. Walsh Our language is naturally overcharged with consonants.

it serves to no better use but only to labour and overcharge the ships' sides in any grown seas and foul weather.

"It's about decades of an office that overcharges and oversentences but keeps getting worse results," Conklin says.

Word Forms

• overcharges
• overcharging
• overcharged

Synonyms for overcharge

Depending on context, synonyms include gouge, hyperbolize, overstate, stretch, exaggerate, overdo.

Antonyms for overcharge

Common opposites include undercharge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overload, gazump, rob, pluck, surcharge, soak.

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