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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overcharge \O`ver*charge"\, v. i.
     To make excessive charges.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Overcharge \O"ver*charge`\, n. [Cf. {Supercargo},
     {Supercharge}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. An excessive load or burden.
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     2. An excessive charge in an account.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overcharge \O`ver*charge"\, v. t. [Cf. {Supercharge},
     {Surcharge}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to
        cloy. --Sir W. Raleigh.
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     2. To fill too full; to crowd.
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              Our language is overcharged with consonants.
                                                    --Addison.
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     3. To charge (a buyer) an excessive price; to charge beyond a
        fair rate or price.
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     4. To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description.
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     5. (Electricity) To charge (a battery) too much, so as to
        cause damage.
        [PJC]
  
     {Overcharged mine}. (Mil.) See {Globe of compression}, under
        {Globe}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  overcharge
       n : a price that is too high
       v 1: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: {soak}, {surcharge},
             {gazump}, {fleece}, {plume}, {pluck}, {rob}, {hook}]
            [ant: {undercharge}]
       2: place too much a load on; "don't overload the car" [syn: {overload},
           {surcharge}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  124 Moby Thesaurus words for "overcharge":
     adorn, aggrandize, amplify, anticathexis, ballyhoo, bleed,
     bleed white, build up, burlesque, caricature, carry too far,
     cathectic energy, cathexis, charge, choke, clip, color, congest,
     congestion, convolute, countercathexis, cram, crowd, decorate,
     desire concentration, draw the longbow, drench, elaborate,
     embellish, embroider, energy charge, engorgement, enrich,
     exaggerate, exploit, exploitation, extortion, festoon, fleece,
     flourish, fudge, gild, glut, gluttonize, go to extremes, gorge,
     gouge, highway robbery, hold up, holdup, hyperbolize,
     hypercathexis, hyperemia, involve, jam, jam-pack, lay it on,
     load with ornament, loan-sharking, magnify, make much of, ornament,
     overassessment, overbrimming, overburden, overdo, overdraw,
     overestimate, overfeed, overfill, overflow, overfreight,
     overfullness, overlade, overlay, overload, overpaint, overpraise,
     overprice, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overspill,
     overstate, overstress, overstuff, overtax, overweigh, overweight,
     pack, pad, pile it on, plethora, profiteer, puff, repletion,
     satiate, satiety, saturate, saturation, screw, shylocking, skin,
     soak, stick, sting, stretch, stretch the truth, stuff, supercharge,
     supersaturate, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit, swindle,
     talk big, talk in superlatives, tout, travesty, trick out, usury,
     varnish, victimize
  
  

















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