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OVERTAX
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overtax mean?
• OVERTAX (verb)
The verb OVERTAX has 1 sense:
1. tax excessively
Familiarity information: OVERTAX used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they overtax ... he / she / it overtaxes
Past simple: overtaxed
Past participle: overtaxed
-ing form: overtaxing
... he / she / it overtaxes Past simple: overtaxed
Past participle: overtaxed
-ing form: overtaxing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tax excessively
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
Don't overtax my constituents!
Hypernyms (to "overtax" is one way to...):
tax (levy a tax on)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
I soon found that I had overtaxed my strength and that I must repose before I could continue my journey.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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