overtax
verb (used with object)
to tax too heavily.
was overtaxing
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past progressiveof overtax.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Her ambition seemed to be to pay for her own lessons, so if I gave her thirty pounds, she could go to a really good master without feeling that she was overtaxing you.
From More about Pixie by William H. C. Groome
When a little later she was walking in her sleep, and dreaming strange dreams, he did not see that he was overtaxing both her body and brain.
From Lives of Girls Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Clearly the worthy woman was overtaxing her strength.
From The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes
He had taxed everything else in life, and now he was overtaxing her loyalty.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
When she felt that she was overtaxing herself, she dropped from the wild pace she had set herself into a little jogging trot.
From Judith of Blue Lake Ranch by Jackson Gregory
