overcharge

1. 1.

   a price that is too high

   Broadercharge

   Narrowerextortion

Other forms of overcharge

plural

overcharges·

past tense

overcharged·

present participle

overcharging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overcharge

What does overcharge mean?

overcharge means "rip off; ask an unreasonable price". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overcharge?

overcharge has 3 syllables: o-ver-charge. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌtʃɑɹdʒ/.

What is another word for overcharge?

Close synonyms include soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of overcharge?

The recorded antonyms are undercharge.

Is overcharge a common word?

overcharge is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overcharge?

6 words rhyme with overcharge. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.