What is "overtax"

Usage examples of "overtax".

There were moments when both his life and his soul seemed overtaxed by so many years of undiscouraged belief in regeneration.

London, and found their hitherto unexercised memories quite overtaxed by masters, who saw that the girls were quick, intelligent, and observant, with a great deal of practical knowledge quite unusual in England at their years, but absolutely devoid of all school acquirements.

He wanted Lenley to overtax himself, to bring about a situation in which The Shadow could gain a new jujutsu hold.

Though troubled by the consciousness that she ought not to have come so far in this direction, and that perhaps her strength would be overtaxed before she could reach home again, she went still on and on, until, reaching the point where another road joined that by which she had come, she found The Chestnuts just before her.

Buses, taxis, cows, bullock-carts, bicycles, water buffalo, motorbikes, trucks, and motorized rickshaws contended for space on the overtaxed highway, with right-of-way going to the biggest vehicles and the loudest horns.

But when anyone anywhere in the world wants to express their prejudice about Germans, they don't tell you how much they hate those Germans in the East — who suffer enough already — all anti-German feeling is directed against the overtaxed, overworked Westies who prop up the overpaid, incompetent bureaucrats of the Common Market and finance its ever-increasing surplus so it can sell more and more bargain-priced wine and butter to the Russians.

But when anyone anywhere in the world wants to express their prejudice about Germans, they don't tell you how much they hate those Germans in the East who suffer enough already all anti-German feeling is directed against the overtaxed, overworked Westies who prop up the overpaid, incompetent bureaucrats of the Common Market and finance its ever-increasing surplus so it can sell more and more bargain-priced wine and butter to the Russians.

And Brekke fainted, mind and body overtaxed by an effort which had saved two lives.

He hoisted himself out of the deep padding, feeling his overtaxed muscles protest, and came over with the bottle.

They're very good, especially for something like this that overtaxes you.

They’re very good, especially for something like this that overtaxes you.

I have not been collecting and hoarding a fortune by overtaxing the peasants of Corwell!

I applied myself to the work and found it not overtaxing, but the pleasures of sitting on a damp rock watching sheep all day soon palled, and I began to yearn for other ways to occupy myself.

You have a strong constitution but also you don't know when you are in danger of overtaxing yourself.

Lupin is hardly overtaxing you — I would expect first years to be able to deal with Red Caps and Grindylows.