英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈtæks/

動詞

overtax (三人称単数 現在形 overtaxes, 現在分詞 overtaxing, 過去形および過去分詞形 overtaxed)

1. To tax to an excessive degree.
2. To overburden.

   The overtaxed shaft snapped.

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 160:

     Again, that lonely taper, how often is it the companion and sign of studies for which the day is too short—studies that steal the gloss from the sunny hair, and the light from the over-taxed eye!

   • 1963 January, “New in Japan: Tokaido line trials”, in Modern Railways, page 44:

     The 310-mile Tokaido line is being built from Tokyo to Osaka, through the most densely populated and heavily industrialised area of the country, to relieve the existing 340-mile 3ft 6in gauge line, which is overtaxed by continually increasing traffic.