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as in stung
to charge (someone) too much for goods or services
I think that store may have overcharged us for the shoes, which were supposed to be on sale
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2
as in overloaded
to fill or load to excess
overcharged his thesis with long, fancy words
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Recent Examples of overcharged
That same year, millions of plaintiffs filed an antitrust class action lawsuit seeking over $1 billion in damages that alleged Sutter Health overcharged customers and companies for health care bills and discouraged clients from using other lower-cost services.
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Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Flat-rate pricing leads to value misalignment, high-usage customers feel undercharged, and low-usage customers feel overcharged.
—Chris Kent, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
While employed by his cousin's yacht brokerage, Boulos reportedly helped convince Kushner to invest in a superyacht, but the brokerage appears to have knowingly overcharged him for the sale.
—Jillian Frankel, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Dendrites tend to grow when the battery is overcharged, because that’s when the lithium ions migrating into the anode can no longer find a berth.
—Weiyang Li, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2018
Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Flat-rate pricing leads to value misalignment, high-usage customers feel undercharged, and low-usage customers feel overcharged.
—Chris Kent, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
While employed by his cousin's yacht brokerage, Boulos reportedly helped convince Kushner to invest in a superyacht, but the brokerage appears to have knowingly overcharged him for the sale.
—Jillian Frankel, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Dendrites tend to grow when the battery is overcharged, because that’s when the lithium ions migrating into the anode can no longer find a berth.
—Weiyang Li, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overcharged
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My eyes stung, the tears ready to spill.—
Sofía Pereda,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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Algren, stung by Beauvoir’s independence, treated her miserably.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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The company says the modification ensures rainwater drains more effectively and the tent better sheds snow so as not to get overloaded.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
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This time around, Ava (Janelle James) is back in the principal's office and is eager, as usual, to see Janine's (Quinta Brunson) downfall as she's overloaded with 40 students in her second-grade class.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
3 Oct. 2025
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Successive hurricanes had gouged a hole in the Sunshine State, leaving several private carriers insolvent — and leaving hundreds of thousands of their customers with no choice but Citizens.—
Mario Ariza,
ProPublica,
15 Sep. 2025
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But a low spot in the ocean, a channel gouged down into the sand on the ocean surface, or a break in a sandbar, can disrupt that flow and push water through the spot to create a current much more powerful than the surrounding flow.—
Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2025
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The idea is that to support military and humanitarian missions, constellations of Arc vehicles would be loaded up and launched into space.—
David Szondy
October 13,
New Atlas,
13 Oct. 2025
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Pilots and aircraft involved in the exercise are certified for the nuclear mission, but no weapons are loaded or flown, NATO officials stressed.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Oct. 2025
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Numerous studies indicate that physicians have increasingly become overburdened with non-clinical tasks that routinely pull them away from direct patient care; in fact, many hospital systems are facing record attrition due to these factors.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Rural fire districts are overburdened, underfunded State regulations appear to place the highest burden on the agencies with the lowest budgets.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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James' office probed allegations that the organization inflated the former president's net worth by billions of dollars and cheated lenders and others with false and misleading financial statements.—
Ivan Pereira,
ABC News,
9 Oct. 2025
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Learn about the latest scam that has cheated companies out of millions.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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On Sunday, Jeanty was stopped for a loss or no gain on four of his 10 runs against light boxes, and overall, the Las Vegas Raiders were stuffed 11 times on 29 attempts — the most of any team in a game this season.—
Vic Tafur,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Many pulled small children in tow or pushed strollers stuffed with blankets and toys.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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Caleb MutuaVinícius Andrade BankingBankruptcy Top investment bank CEO says he was ‘defrauded’ by the bankruptcy that’s rattling Wall Street.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
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In 2018 Marti DeLiemaof the University of Minnesota observed that the lack of a trustworthy network of friends or family best distinguished the older adults who had been defrauded from those who had not.—
Madhusree Mukerjee,
Scientific American,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Overcharged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overcharged. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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