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Webster 1913 Edition
Overcharge
1.
To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.
Sir W. Raleigh.
2.
To fill too full; to crowd.
Our language is
overcharged
with consonants. Addison.
3.
To charge (a buyer) an excessive price; to charge beyond a fair rate or price.
4.
To exaggerate;
as, to
. overcharge
a descriptionOˊver-charge′
,Verb.
I.
To make excessive charges.
1.
An excessive load or burden.
2.
An excessive charge in an account.
Webster 1828 Edition
Overcharge
OVERCH'ARGE
, v.t.1.
To charge or load to excess; to cloy; to oppress.The heavy load of abundance with which we overcharge nature -
2.
To crowd too much.Our language is overcharged with consonants.
3.
To burden.4.
To fill to excess; to surcharge; as, to overcharge the memory.5.
To load with too great a charge, as a gun.6.
To charge too much; to enter in an account more than is just.Definition 2025
overcharge
overcharge
English
Verb
overcharge (third-person singular simple present overcharges, present participle overcharging, simple past and past participle overcharged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
- (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
- (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Raleigh to this entry?)
- (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
- Addison
- Our language is overcharged with consonants.
- Addison
- (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.
- to overcharge a description
Translations
to charge more than correct amount
to overcharge an electric device
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Antonyms
Noun
overcharge (plural overcharges)