overcharge

1. (ambitransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.Examples: "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."ambitransitive

2. (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.transitive

3. (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.Examples: "it serves to no better use but only to labour and overcharge the ships' sides in any grown seas and foul weather."datedtransitive

4. (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.Examples: "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."datedtransitive

5. (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.Examples: "to overcharge a description"datedtransitive