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US
/ˈoʊvɝˌtæks/
]
[ UK /ˌəʊvətˈæks/ ]
[ UK /ˌəʊvətˈæks/ ]
VERB
-
tax excessively
Don't overtax my constituents!
How To Use overtax In A Sentence
- Then again, one pesky obstacle still stands in the way--that "overtaxed" island on the fringe of Europe, the U.K. Murdoch Complains U.K Overtaxes Business Murdoch Complains U.K. Overtaxes Business
- I feel it is totally unacceptable to place this burden on the already overtaxed householders who are facing increasingly inflated council tax bills.
- ‘Don't even think about overtaxing yourself, because I'm not going down there to rescue you,’ Tybbeth shot back, opening one eye.
- Following this method does not overtax the body's natural cycles of metabolic dips, blood-pressure peaks and valleys.
- If you're too breathless to form complete sentences, you're exercising too hard and overtaxing your heart.
- We may be overtaxing you, but we know better than you how to spend your hard-earned wages.
- But all of them either overtax the processing power of the servers at the gambling sites or jam up pipelines.
- The exploited woollen workers of Rouen, the overtaxed winegrowers of Languedoc, and the Alpine farmers who were being excluded from forest land resorted to solving their problems by violence.
- The overtaxed sewer system had ruptured, mixing septic water with the thick sludge churned up by the wave.
- Although rare in the general population, patients who somatise seem to represent a sizable population in general medical clinics, and they probably overuse and overtax the healthcare system.