overtax
verb (used with object)
to tax too heavily.
is overtaxing
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present progressiveof overtax (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Soaring demand for cooling — fans, air conditioners, fridges and freezers — is overtaxing electrical grids long beset by war damage, mismanagement or corruption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
The excess water is overtaxing Detroit’s underground storm water pumping system and the city’s water treatment operations.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2019
But the strain of the undertaking is overtaxing West Pakistan's resources and nerves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Give up this toilsome work which is overtaxing your strength," Reginald had said, as they sat together one evening in the twilight, "and make your home with us.
From A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black
Not a countenance but wore that immobile look, the fixed, unseeing eye of the spent runner, who is overtaxing heart and lungs.
From The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins
