| Surcharge 1. (n.) An extra charge; as surcharge to a phone bill; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne. 2. (v. t.) To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. 3. (v. t.) 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. 4. (v. t.) To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given. 5. (n.) The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to. 6. (n.) The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given. Thesaurus Entries bale, bleed, bleed white, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging, choke, clip, congest, congestion, cram, crowd, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, doctor accounts, drag, drench, encumbrance, engorgement, exploit, exploitation, extortion, fleece, freight, garble accounts, glut, gluttonize, gorge, gouge, handicap, highway robbery, hold up, holdup, hyperemia, incubus, incumbency, jam, jam-pack, lading, load, loading, loan-sharking, millstone, oppression, overassessment, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge, overfeed, overfill, overflow, overfreight, overfullness, overlade, overload, overprice, overspill, overstuff, overtax, overtaxing, overweight, overweighting, pack, plethora, pressure, profiteer, repletion, saddling, salt, satiate, satiety, saturate, saturation, screw, shylocking, skin, soak, stick, sting, stuff, supercharge, superincumbency, supersaturate, supersaturation, surfeit, swindle, taxing, usury, victimize |