Word Meanings - OVERCHARGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.

Additional info about word: 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 excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4. To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description. Overcharged mine. See Globe of compression, under Globe.

Related words: (words related to OVERCHARGE)

• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• 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 excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• OPPRESSION
  1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• OPPRESSOR
  One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. Shak. To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift.
• PRICELESS
  1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Of no value; worthless. J. Barlow.
• OPPRESSURE
  Oppression.
• CHARGELESS
  Free from, or with little, charge.
• BURDENOUS
  Burdensome. "Burdenous taxations." Shak.
• CHARGEABLENESS
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
• BURDENSOME
  Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton. Syn. -- Heavy; weighty; cumbersome; onerous; grievous; oppressive; troublesome. -- Bur"den*some*ly, adv. -- Bur"den*some*ness,
• CHARGEOUS
  Burdensome. I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, .
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• OVERBURDEN
  To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney.
• UNBURDEN
  1. To relieve from a burden. 2. To throw off, as a burden; to unload.