<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to charge (a purchaser) too high a price: When the manager realized we'd been overcharged, she gave us a credit for the difference.</li><li>to fill too full; overload.</li><li>to exaggerate: to overcharge the importance of ancestry.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a charge in excess of a stated or just price.</li><li>an act of overcharging.</li><li>an excessive load.</li></ul>