Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overcharge
Participle: overcharged
Gerund: overcharging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overcharge |
| you | overcharge |
| he;she;it | overcharges |
| we | overcharge |
| you | overcharge |
| they | overcharge |
Perfect
| I | have overcharged |
| you | have overcharged |
| he;she;it | has overcharged |
| we | have overcharged |
| you | have overcharged |
| they | have overcharged |
Past
| I | overcharged |
| you | overcharged |
| he;she;it | overcharged |
| we | overcharged |
| you | overcharged |
| they | overcharged |
Pluperfect
| I | had overcharged |
| you | had overcharged |
| he;she;it | had overcharged |
| we | had overcharged |
| you | had overcharged |
| they | had overcharged |
Future
| I | will overcharge |
| you | will overcharge |
| he;she;it | will overcharge |
| we | will overcharge |
| you | will overcharge |
| they | will overcharge |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overcharged |
| you | will have overcharged |
| he;she;it | will have overcharged |
| we | will have overcharged |
| you | will have overcharged |
| they | will have overcharged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overcharge |
| you | overcharge |
| he;she;it | overcharge |
| we | overcharge |
| you | overcharge |
| they | overcharge |
Perfect
| I | have overcharged |
| you | have overcharged |
| he;she;it | have overcharged |
| we | have overcharged |
| you | have overcharged |
| they | have overcharged |
Imperfect
| I | overcharged |
| you | overcharged |
| he;she;it | overcharged |
| we | overcharged |
| you | overcharged |
| they | overcharged |
Pluperfect
| I | had overcharged |
| you | had overcharged |
| he;she;it | had overcharged |
| we | had overcharged |
| you | had overcharged |
| they | had overcharged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overcharge |
| you | would overcharge |
| he;she;it | would overcharge |
| we | would overcharge |
| you | would overcharge |
| they | would overcharge |
Perfect
| I | would have overcharged |
| you | would have overcharged |
| he;she;it | would have overcharged |
| we | would have overcharged |
| you | would have overcharged |
| they | would have overcharged |
Imperative
| you | overcharge |
| we | Let's overcharge |
| you | overcharge |
Verbs conjugated like 'overcharge'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overcharge'
overcare,
overshare,
encharge,
forecharge,
outcharge,
overage,
overcark,
overcarry,
overdare,
overgorge,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1303, "to overload, overburden," from over + charge. Meaning "to charge someone too much money" is from 1667.
2. From Middle English overchargen, equivalent to over- + charge.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1957 October 26, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:]
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Sometimes I get overcharged / That's when you see sparks [1997, “The Tourist”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:]
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The police, fully aware of the reality of plea bargaining, often overcharge (if they don't, then the prosecutor does). The police also may overcharge in order to develop informants. [2015, Randall G. Shelden, William B. Brown, Karen S. Miller, Randal B. Fritzler, Crime and Criminal Justice in American Society: Second Edition, Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 184:]
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Shadow vigilantism can also be seen in the conduct of officials within the system who feel morally justified in subverting the system because they see it as regularly and indifferently producing failures of justice.[…] It’s also apparent in police “testilying” to subvert search and seizure technicalities (and judicial toleration of it) and in prosecutorial overcharging to compensate for past perceived justice failures. [2018, Paul H. Robinson, Sarah Robinson, Shadow Vigilantes: How Distrust in the Justice System Breeds a New Kind of Lawlessness: Section III. The Subversions and Perversions of Shadow Vigilantism:]
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"It's about decades of an office that overcharges and oversentences but keeps getting worse results," Conklin says. [2022 July 21, Daniel Walters, “Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell finds himself under attack from three fronts”, in The Inlander, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2025:]
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it serves to no better use but only to labour and overcharge the ships' sides in any grown seas and foul weather. [c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service:]
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October 22, 1706, Alexander Pope, letter to Mr. Walsh
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Our language is naturally overcharged with consonants.
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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. [1889, Paul F. Munde/, The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; volume 22 issue 1, page 516:]
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to overcharge a description