Overtaxed definition

Yet Monk was clearly overtaxed, and on the 3rd he prepared to retreat to the Thames.

Paolo had never been a strong man, and his health was overtaxed with studies and commercial worries.

But this is exceptional, and generally one part gives way before another, either on account of one part being naturally weaker or of one part having been overtaxed or more severely attacked by some injurious external influence, or by some undue preponderance of another part of the body itself.

That he might not be overtaxed he was left entirely uneducated, and his indolence was indulged to such an extent that he was not even expected to be clean.