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Overtax   Listen
verb
Overtax  v. t.  To tax or to task too heavily; as, a job that overtaxed his physical energies.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... of the George Cruikshank style of beauty, and on the left an older person. Both are gesticulating and impressing upon St. Anne the enormous obligation she has just conferred upon mankind; they seem also to be imploring her not to overtax her strength, but, strange to say, they are giving her neither flowers nor anything to eat and drink. I know no other birth of the Virgin in which St. Anne wants so ...
— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler



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