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exacted

verb

Meaning

  1. To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
  2. To make desirable or necessary.
  3. To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

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Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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