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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 excessivelyplay

  Familiarity information: OVERTAX used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OVERTAX (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they overtax  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it overtaxes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: overtaxed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: overtaxed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: overtaxing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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