to tax
65
5.8
- verb
- /tæks/
:
agotar
- We just don't want you to tax yourself, darling boy.
- severely tax one's patience
- tax resources
- tax cognitive abilities
Examples
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The openwork walls looked intricate enough to tax the best craftswoman at her lace frame.
Fiction book (1991) -
Conscious decision-making requires cognitive effort and is a relatively laborious process taxing a highly limited attentional capacity.
Academic text (1998) -
May I tax your memory and, indeed, your patience a little longer?
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I did not want to tax my tired husband with that can of worms.
Fiction book (1998) -
Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care.
Academic text (2017) -
The boy has a fine mind, but it's a little taxed.
-
But the way she unreservedly gave of herself was taxing her to the limit.
Fiction book (1991) -
Thus, living in Bangladesh requires more than adaptive skills, though it taxes those to the limit.
Academic text (1994) -
The listener's imagination is severely taxed in an effort to grasp the whole.
Academic text (1997) -
The long meeting about budget cuts really began to tax my ability to focus.
Synonyms
2
5.6
Put too much strain on someone or something so they cannot cope
To give someone more work than they can do
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
- Formal
3
3.5
Officially send a completed form showing your income and taxes you owe
Compounds
- Specialized
98
3.0
A smaller tax people or companies must pay to encourage certain activities
85
3.2
A tax local governments charge on houses and land based on how much they are worth
76
3.2
An official paper you send to the tax office that shows your income to work out tax
- Specialized
47
5.4
A tax on the profit you make when you sell things like stocks or property
- Specialized
29
4.8
A tax on someone's money and property when they die before their family gets it
- Formal
24
3.9
A government's plan for how it charges and collects money from people and companies
- Specialized
22
3.4
An expense or amount you can subtract from your income to lower your tax
- Specialized
18
4.2
The total value of income, goods, or sales a government can collect money from
- US
13
3.4
Extra money that the government adds to the price of fuel to pay for roads and bridges
- Formal
12
2.8
An official paper you use to tell the government how much money you earn and owe in tax
- US
11
4.4
A plan or investment that helps people and companies pay less money to the government
- Specialized
11
5.5
A tax on goods like tobacco and alcohol charged for each item or amount sold
- Specialized
10
5.1
Total amount of tax a person or business must pay to the government
- Specialized
9
3.7
A rule that lets people or companies pay less tax to encourage certain activities
- Specialized
6
4.0
A tax added to the price of goods and services each time a business makes or sells them
4
3.9
A tax system where people with higher incomes pay a larger percentage of their income
- Specialized
3
7.6
A claim by the government on property like a house for unpaid taxes that lets the government take it
- Specialized
2
4.2
A tax that a person or business pays directly to the government, not added to the price of goods
- Specialized
1
7.0
Money paid in regular payments to the government on income your employer does not take from your pay
- Formal
1
5.2
A fee the government charges to get permission to sell things or do some jobs
- Specialized
1
4.4
A tax taken from an employee's pay by the employer and sent to the government
- Formal
1
3.7
An official value of property or income that shows how much tax you must pay
- UK
1
4.1
A tax charged by the local council based on a home's value and the people living there
- Specialized
1
7.5
A system where people pay only one government charge, usually on land value
- Specialized
1
8.1
A right the federal government takes on your property when you do not pay taxes you owe
- Specialized
1
7.9
A tax some US states charge companies for the right to do business there based on their value or income
- Specialized
1
4.9
A system where people pay a higher share of their income as income rises
- UK
1
7.2
A payment you make by buying an official stamp and putting it on certain documents
- Specialized
1
7.9
A claim a state makes on your property when you do not pay taxes, so it can sell the property
- Formal
A form a taxpayer files to say how much tax they expect to owe when tax withheld is not enough
How Burdensome
194
3.2
88
3.9
65
5.8
87
4.2
77
3.7
∞
1.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tax comes from the Latin taxare, which meant 'to estimate' or 'set a value'. Because being made to pay is a burden, tax also came to mean 'to strain' or put heavy demands on someone's energy or patience.