Ō'ver-chärġe'1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. OVERCHARGED; p. pr. & vb. n. OVERCHARGING.]
Sense 1. To load with too heavy a charge or weight; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. “The heavy load of abundance with which we overcharge nature.” Raleigh.
Sense 2. To fill too full; to crowd.
Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison.
Sense 3. To make too great a charge of, as on an account; to make an excessive charge against;—applied to persons.
Sense 4. (Mil.) To fill with too much powder and ball, as a gun.
Overcharged mine (Mil.), a mine whose crater is wider at top than it is deep.