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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
- noun. An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
- noun. The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
- noun. The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
- noun. an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill)
- verb. show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given
- verb. place too much a load on
"don't overload the car"
- verb. fill to an excessive degree
"The air was surcharged with tension"
- verb. print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote
- verb. fill to capacity with people
"The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards"
- verb. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- verb. charge an extra fee, as for a special service
Synonyms
overcharge, overload, fleece, gazump, hook, pluck, plume, rob, soak
Common word forms
surcharged, surcharger, surcharges, surcharging
Words from these letters
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