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Overcharge vs Overburden - What's the difference?

overcharge | overburden |

As verbs the difference between overcharge and overburden

is that overcharge is to charge more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill while overburden is to overload or overtax.

As nouns the difference between overcharge and overburden

is that overcharge is an excessive load or burden while overburden is (geology) the rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam.

overcharge

English

Verb

  • to charge more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill
  • to continue to charge an electric device beyond its electrical capacity
  • To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
    • (Sir Walter Raleigh)
  • To fill too full; to crowd.
  • * Addison
    • Our language is overcharged with consonants.
  • To exaggerate.
    • to overcharge a description

    Antonyms

    *undercharge

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An excessive load or burden.
  • An excessive charge in an account.

    • overburden

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To overload or overtax

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) The rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam.
  • *2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 163:
  • *:Such rocks have been changed by baking in a terrestrial pressure-cooker. Then they have been disinterred: kilometres of overburden must have been removed.
  • (archaeology) A sterile stratum that lies above the stratum being investigated

    • References

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