overcharge
overcharge verb: to charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
Verb
overcharge (third-person singular simple present overcharges, present participle overcharging, simple past and past participle overcharged)
- To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
- Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.1957 October, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 726
- Synonyms:
- gouge
- Antonyms:
- undercharge
- To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
- Sometimes I get overcharged / That's when you see sparks1997, “The Tourist”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead
- 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.
- The police, fully aware of the reality of plea bargaining, often overcharge (if they don't, then the prosecutor does). The police also may overcharge in order to develop informants.2015, Randall G. Shelden, William B. Brown, Karen S. Miller, Randal B. Fritzler, Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society: Second Edition, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 184
- Shadow vigilantism can also be seen in the conduct of officials within the system who feel morally justified in subverting the system because they see it as regularly and indifferently producing failures of justice.[…] It’s also apparent in police “testilying” to subvert search and seizure...2018, Paul H. Robinson, Sarah Robinson, Shadow Vigilantes: How Distrust in the Justice System Breeds a New Kind of Lawlessness: Section III. The Subversions and Perversions of Shadow Vigilantism
- To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
- it serves to no better use but only to labour and overcharge the ships' sides in any grown seas and foul weather.c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service
- To fill too full; to crowd.
- October 22, 1706, Alexander Pope, letter to Mr. Walsh
Our language is naturally overcharged with consonants. - The result is that the veins become overcharged with blood, and we are taught by physiology that wherever there is overcharge of the venous circulation there results supernutrition, and primarily from that there develops new connective tissue.1889, Paul F. Munde/, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; volume 22 issue 1, page 516
- October 22, 1706, Alexander Pope, letter to Mr. Walsh
- To exaggerate.
- to overcharge a description
- Synonyms:
- hyperbolize, overstate, stretch, big up, cut it fat, exaggerate, overdo, overemphasize, play up, three-sheet
Noun
overcharge (plural overcharges)
- An excessive load or burden.
- An excessive charge in an account.
- Near-synonym: price gouging
- This was a blatant overcharge. They tripled the price because they thought that the customer wouldn't know any better.
- Synonyms:
- price gouging
- Any amount erroneously charged to a customer above the correct price for a product or service.
- The software glitch caused an overcharge.
- Antonyms:
- undercharge
- An excessive charge of a rechargeable battery.
- It is impossible to end up with an overcharge of your smartphone under any normal circumstances because its hardware and firmware stop the charging when the battery is full.
overcharge meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and Thai
overcharge in Hindi
- to overcharge
- लूटना lūṭnā
overcharge in Malayalam
- charge too much, swindle, cheat
- അന്യായവില ഈടാക്കുക, അമിതവില ഈടാക്കുക, അന്യായവില ചുമത്തുക, അധികം വില ചുമത്തുക, ചതിക്കുക, വഞ്ചിക്കുക
- exaggerate, overstate, overdo
- അതിവർണ്ണന നടത്തുക, അതിശയോക്തി കലർത്തുക, ആവശ്യത്തിൽ കവിഞ്ഞു ചെയ്ക, പൊലിപ്പിച്ചു പറയുക, അതിശയോക്തി പ്രയോഗിക്കുക, ഊതിവീർപ്പിക്കുക
overcharge in Kannada
- ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಬೆಲೆ ಹೇಳು, ಹೆಚ್ಚು ತುಂಬಿಸು, ಅತಿಯಾಗಿ ಆರೋಪಿಸು, ಆಪಾದಿಸು, ಆರೋಪ ಹೊರಿಸು, ದುಬಾರಿಯ ಬೆಲೆ ಹಾಕು
overcharge in Thai
- to charge more than correct amount
- คิดเงินเกิน
Examples of overcharge in a sentence
- "It's about decades of an office that overcharges and oversentences but keeps getting worse results," Conklin says.2022 July 21, Daniel Walters, “Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell finds himself under attack from three fronts”, in The Inlander...
- Rust-proofing, transport charge, storage surcharge, additional overcharge, finder's fee, […] floor mats, keys […]1998 January 8, The Dealership (Seinfeld), season 9, episode 11, spoken by Puddy:
Synonyms of overcharge
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Antonyms
Forms of overcharge
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | overcharges |
| present participle | overcharging |
| past participle | overcharged |
| past | overcharged |
| Noun | |
| plural | overcharges |
Origin of overcharge
From Middle English overchargen, equivalent to over- + charge.
Words formed from overcharge
Questions about overcharge
- What does overcharge mean?
- Overcharge means to charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
- What is overcharge in Hindi?
- Overcharge in Hindi is लूटना (lūṭnā). See Overcharge meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use overcharge in a sentence?
- "It's about decades of an office that overcharges and oversentences but keeps getting worse results," Conklin says.
- What part of speech is overcharge?
- Overcharge can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of overcharge?
- The past tense of overcharge is overcharged.
Words near overcharge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: overcharge (page history and authors); लूटना (Hindi) (page history and authors); overcharge (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); overcharge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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