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Overcharge   /ˈoʊvərtʃˌɑrdʒ/   Listen
Overcharge

verb
1.
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.  Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge.
2.
Place too much a load on.  Synonyms: overload, surcharge.






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"Overcharge" Quotes from Famous Books



... family of the Wrongheads, the illiterate, one-idea'd class of which he is a member, that they never can contemplate a friendly act without perpetrating mischief, nor intend mischief without unconsciously achieving discomfiture and disgrace. For of the L.1,550,000 colonial overcharge in military expenditure alone of this shallow, unreflecting, and superficial person, not less certainly than L1,200,000 must be charged to the account of foreign trade, the special trade he delights to honour. It ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 • Various

... greater fools—broke in melody: "To my own dear love from her ever loyal and devoted knight," and she held her opened hand high. 'Twas my birch-bark message which Father Holland had carried north. I suddenly went insane with a great overcharge of joy, ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut



Words linked to "Overcharge" :   undercharge, lade, charge, load up, extort, wring, rack, load, chisel, extortion, squeeze, cheat, laden, bill, rip off, gouge



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