OVERCHARGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overcharge mean? 

• OVERCHARGE (noun)
  The noun OVERCHARGE has 1 sense:

1. a price that is too high

  Familiarity information: OVERCHARGE used as a noun is very rare.

• OVERCHARGE (verb)
  The verb OVERCHARGE has 2 senses:

1. rip off; ask an unreasonable price

2. place too much a load on

  Familiarity information: OVERCHARGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERCHARGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A price that is too high

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("overcharge" is a kind of...):

charge (the price charged for some article or service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "overcharge"):

extortion (an exorbitant charge)

Derivation:

overcharge (rip off; ask an unreasonable price)

• OVERCHARGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overcharge    ... he / she / it overcharges   
Past simple: overcharged   
Past participle: overcharged   
-ing form: overcharging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

fleece; gazump; hook; overcharge; pluck; plume; rob; soak; surcharge

Hypernyms (to "overcharge" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

"Overcharge" entails doing...:

bill; charge (demand payment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overcharge"):

extort; gouge; rack; squeeze; wring (obtain by coercion or intimidation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

undercharge (charge (someone) too little money)

Derivation:

overcharge (a price that is too high)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place too much a load on

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

overcharge; overload; surcharge

Context example:

don't overload the car

Hypernyms (to "overcharge" is one way to...):

lade; laden; load; load up (fill or place a load on)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

My overcharged heart found the same relief, and I cried too.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone!—seemed to burst from an overcharged heart, and to describe somewhat of the continual endurance to be practised by her, even towards some of those who loved her best.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I am so blest, Trotwood—my heart is so overcharged—but there is one thing I must say.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The cold, however, was severe; and by the time the second carriage was in motion, a few flakes of snow were finding their way down, and the sky had the appearance of being so overcharged as to want only a milder air to produce a very white world in a very short time.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)