tax
/tæks/ verb C1- To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). · Some think to tax the wealthy is the fairest.
- To impose and collect a tax on (something). · Some think to tax wealth is destructive of a private sector.
- To make excessive demands on. · Do not tax my patience.
- To accuse.
- To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
He/she/it taxes · Past taxed · Past participle taxed · -ing form taxing
Verb forms
- Base form
- tax
- He/she/it
- taxes
- Past
- taxed
- Past participle
- taxed
- -ing form
- taxing
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He then endeavored to re-enter the marvellous grottos, but they had suddenly receded, and now the path became a labyrinth, and then the entrance vanished, and in vain did he tax his memory for the magic and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman.
The two girls had been whispering to each other during the whole visit; and the result of it was, that the youngest should tax Mr.
“If he were safely out of the country it would relieve the tax-payer of a burden.”
She taxed her husband with his intended crime, and a furious scene followed in which he showed her for the first time that she had a rival in his love.
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