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taxing
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As an adjective, taxing means with respect to an experience: exhausting. As a noun, it means the act of imposing a tax.
Meanings of taxing
4 meaningsverb
Present participle of tax
adjective
With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
Burdensome, difficult.
“a taxing problem”
Not easily borne; wearing
“the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return”
“my duties weren't onerous: I only had to greet the guests”
“a taxing schedule”
Similar: burdensome, onerous
noun
The act of imposing a tax.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
adjective: not easily borne; wearing
Words that rhyme with taxing
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