Emily Dickinson Lexicon

O-VER-CHARGE', v.t.

1. To charge or load to excess; to cloy; to oppress. The heavy load of abundance with which we overcharge nature. – Ralegh.
2. To crowd too much. Our language is overcharged with consonants. – Addison.
3. To burden. – Shak.
4. To fill to excess; to surcharge; as, to overcharge the memory. – Locke.
5. To load with too great a charge, as a gun. – Denham.
6. To charge too much; to enter in an account more than is just.