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overtaxed

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verb

past tense of overtax

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overtaxed
Verb
  • Applicants must meet one of 46 distinct eligibility criteria and fill out mountains of paperwork – a long and difficult process for a population already overburdened by bureaucracy.
    Pascale Leone, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • After a mapping campaign in Toledo, Ohio, officials found that the city’s hot spots often overlapped with census tracts identified by the Biden administration’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool as lacking in commercial investment and overburdened by pollution.
    Ula Chrobak, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Some of them wanted to dance, some spent time with their families, others just looked exhausted.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • But now, a quieter trend is taking hold in exhausted households nationwide: revenge meals.
    Christine Michel Carter, Parents, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Upgrade Lounge will be open in the mornings from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm ET, and again in the evenings from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm ET—but weary travelers who miss these windows can still relax in the lounge’s cushy couches and swivel chairs outside of operating hours.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2025
  • Now, the Entity intends to annihilate humanity in four days unless it can be taken offline by a key that accesses a gizmo in the Arctic Sea that connects to a whatsit that Ving Rhames’s weary Luther is attempting to invent from a makeshift hospital bed somewhere in the subway tunnels of London.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • As a result, many controllers report that they are fatigued and demoralized, a combination that some fear could lead to a catastrophic mistake.
    Aaron Krolik, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • In a headphone environment in which the left and right channels are separated, ears may become fatigued during prolonged listening.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • While infants and toddlers between the ages of 0 to 2 years are more likely to experience a stuffy nose, cough, poor appetite, fussiness, and sleep problems, children between the ages of 3 to 5 years mainly complain of sleepiness, feeling tired during daytime, low energy and dry cough.
    Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • Family members said Jacobs had talked about feeling tired, but not about wanting to take his own life.
    Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2025
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“Overtaxed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtaxed. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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