Overcharge
OVERCH'ARGE, verb transitive
1. To charge or load to excess; to cloy; to oppress.
The heavy load of abundance with which we overcharge nature -
2. To crowd too much.
Our language is overcharged with consonants.
3. To burden.
4. To fill to excess; to surcharge; as, to overcharge the memory.
5. To load with too great a charge, as a gun.
6. To charge too much; to enter in an account more than is just.
OVERCHARGE, noun
1. An excessive load or burden.
2. A charge in an account of more than is just.
3. A charge beyond what is proper.
First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): 2 Corinthians 2:5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
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