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overtax en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtæks/

Etymology

From over- + tax.

Meanings

1. To tax to an excessive degree.
2. To overburden.
   • Again, that lonely taper, how often is it the companion and sign of studies for which the day is too short—studies that steal the gloss from the sunny hair, and the light from the over-taxed eye! 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 160:
   • The overtaxed shaft snapped.
   • The 310-mile Tokaido line is being built from Tokyo to Osaka, through the most densely populated and heavily industrialised area of the country, to relieve the existing 340-mile 3ft 6in gauge line, which is overtaxed by continually increasing traffic. 1963 January, “New in Japan: Tokaido line trials”, in Modern Railways, page 44:

Forms

Translations (6)

el υπερφορολογώ (to tax to an excessive degree) · hu túlterhel (to overburden) · fr surtaxer (to tax to an excessive degree) · hu megerőltet (to overburden) · hu túlerőltet (to overburden) · hu túladóztat (to tax to an excessive degree)