Burdened excessively with taxes; subjected to heavy taxation or financial demands.
From 'be-' (intensive prefix) + 'taxed' (past participle of 'tax,' from Old French 'taxer,' meaning to assess or charge). The 'be-' prefix emphasizes excessive burden.
Medieval and early-modern people used 'betaxed' to describe regions crushed by royal demands—it's a visceral word because taxes literally determined whether peasants could eat, making 'betaxed' a word of real suffering.
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