Dictionary Entry
surcharge
surcharge is a 9-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
- 2transitive verb
To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
- 3transitive verb
To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
- 4noun
An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
- 5noun
The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
- 6noun
The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
- 7noun
an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
- 8verb
show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
- 9verb
place too much a load on
"don't overload the car"
Synonyms
- 10verb
fill to an excessive degree
"The air was surcharged with tension"
- 11verb
print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
- 12verb
fill to capacity with people
"The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards"
- 13verb
rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- 14verb
charge an extra fee, as for a special service
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