Taxed

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tax \Tax\ (t[a^]ks), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Taxed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Taxing}.] [Cf. F. taxer. See {Tax}, n.]
     1. To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a
        tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money
        from for the support of government.
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              We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride,
              and folly than we are taxed by government.
                                                    --Franklin.
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     2. (Law) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount
        of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
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     3. To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed
        by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to
        tax a man with pride.
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              I tax you, you elements, with unkindness. --Shak.
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              Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have
              taxed their crimes.                   --Dryden.
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              Fear not now that men should tax thine honor. --M.
                                                    Arnold.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "taxed":
     accused, arraigned, blamed, burdened, charged, cited, cumbered,
     denounced, encumbered, fraught, freighted, hampered, impeached,
     implicated, impugned, in complicity, incriminated, inculpated,
     indicted, involved, laden, loaded, oppressed, overburdened,
     overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded,
     overtaxed, overweighted, reproached, saddled, tasked, under attack,
     under fire, weighted, weighted down