overcharged

past tense of overcharge
1
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 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 The sale was made by an international brokerage firm, owned by Boulos’ cousin, which overcharged the seemingly business savvy Kushner by millions of dollars and worked to conceal the true price. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 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
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  • Congressional Democrats feel stung by the mass layoffs and program cuts that followed the last stopgap spending deal in March.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • At a family gathering in Huntsville, Alabama, I was stung by the divisive image on my 16-year-old relative’s T-shirt.
    Sabrina S. Fu, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
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  • Spradlin, who is also a member of Pastors for Texas Children, said the curriculum is overloaded with concepts that are too advanced for the grade levels where they’re presented.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2025
  • When Helene hit, North Carolina’s VIPER radio system — the statewide network first responders use to talk to each other — was quickly overloaded, forcing agencies to scramble onto backup VHF channels.
    Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 18 Sep. 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
  • 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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  • In 1997, Netscape added the ability to embed small music files in the MIDI sound format that would play when a webpage was loaded.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Just after the Angels handed him a 6-3 lead in the top of the fifth, Farris gave up back-to-back hits and a walk to loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the inning.
    Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 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
  • 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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  • Passed over to his hapless son (Dacre Montgomery), our (anti-)hero wires a shotgun to his head and takes him hostage, claiming that the organization’s business maneuvers cheated him out of a substantial fortune.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The woman lives alone, AFP added, citing local media outlets, and was ultimately cheated out of approximately 1 million yen, or about $6,700.
    Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • It’s stuffed with tissue paper.
    Vogue, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Jerrold Pough cradled a Batman stuffed bear in his arms, pressing down on its paw to hear the recorded voice of his grandson, 3-year-old Rylo Yancy, who was killed by gunfire at a children’s birthday party in Fort Lauderdale last summer.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • Still, defrauded Coloradans routinely lost thousands of dollars in these schemes.
    Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Feeding Our Future defrauded the government of $250 million in federal funds from a pandemic-era meal program.
    Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Overcharged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overcharged. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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