overtax
verb (used with object)
to tax too heavily.
have overtaxed
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present perfectof overtax.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Yet far too often we have overtaxed and undertrained police officers struggling to appropriately collect and analyze evidence.
From Slate ● May 11, 2021
This augurs well for such upcoming challenges as the Mahler Sixth and Shostakovich 10th symphonies and Strauss’s “Till Eulenspiegel,” works that would have overtaxed the orchestra I had been hearing the past few years.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2016
Otherwise, the highs and lows, mostly lows, of recent days might have overtaxed his ballast.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been hard at work upon his Life of Washington, and he sometimes feared he might have overtaxed his brain.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
America had already drained the Peninsula of her able-bodied men to such an extent that a military occupation of these Islands would have overtaxed the resources of the mother country.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
