Synonyms of the word

overcharge

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain…
• v. (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
• v. (transitive, dated) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
• v. (transitive, dated) To fill too full; to crowd.
• v. (transitive, dated) To exaggerate.
• n. An excessive load or burden.
• n. An excessive charge in an account.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chisel

• n. Gravel.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
• n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
• v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
• v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

fleece

• n. (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.
• n. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached.
• n. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher…
• n. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket.
• n. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
• n. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
• n. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
• v. to con or trick someone out of money.
• v. to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep).

gazump

• v. (Britain) To swindle; to extort.
• v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after…
• v. (Britain, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted…
• v. (Britain, Australia) To trump or preempt; to reap the benefit underhandedly from a situation that someone…
• n. (US, slang, dated) An automobile.
• n. A politician who takes bribes.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

lade

• v. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
• v. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
• v. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
• v. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
• v. (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) The mouth of a river.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
• n. (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

laden

• adj. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
• adj. Heavy.
• adj. Oppressed.
• adj. (chemistry) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
• v. past participle of lade.

load

• n. A burden; a weight to be carried.
• n. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
• n. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
• n. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity…
• n. (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
• n. The volume of work required to be performed.
• n. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
• n. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
• n. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
• n. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
• n. A unit of measure for various quantities.
• n. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
• n. The charge of powder for a firearm.
• n. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
• n. (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
• n. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
• v. (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
• v. (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
• v. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
• v. (intransitive) To receive a load.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
• v. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
• v. (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a…
• v. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
• v. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
• v. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases.
• v. (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
• v. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
• v. (transitive) To provide in abundance.
• v. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.

overload

• v. (transitive) to load excessively.
• v. (transitive) to provide too much power to a circuit.
• v. (transitive, object-oriented programming) to create different functions for the same name, to be used…
• v. (intransitive) to fail due to excessive load.
• n. An excessive load.
• n. The damage done, or the outage caused by such a load.
• n. (computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.

pluck

• v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
• v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
• v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
• v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
• v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
• v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
• v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
• n. An instance of plucking.
• n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
• n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

plume

• n. A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
• n. The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
• n. A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
• n. A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides oneself; a prize or reward.
• n. An area over which (or aspace into which) a dispersed substance has spread or fanned out; a cloud.
• n. An upward spray of water or mist.
• n. (geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
• n. (astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
• n. A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental…
• v. (transitive) To preen and arrange the feathers of.
• v. (transitive) To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
• v. To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
• v. To adorn with feathers or plumes.
• v. To form a plume.
• v. To write; to pen.

rob

• v. (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To burgle.
• v. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
• v. (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
• n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches…

soak

• v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
• v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
• v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
• v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
• v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
• n. An immersion in water etc.
• n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
• n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

surcharge

• n. An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
• n. An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
• n. (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp;…
• n. (law) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
• n. (law) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's…
• n. (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
• n. (law, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.
• v. To apply a surcharge.
• v. To overload; to overburden.
• v. (law) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or…
• v. To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.