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toll

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1. toll - Noun

2. toll - Verb

3. Toll - Proper noun

Meaning

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.

To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.

The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

To pay toll or tallage.

To take toll; to raise a tax.

To collect, as a toll.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't. Kenny Dalglish

The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. Betty Friedan

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too. Preity Zinta

I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart. Camille Paglia

Lies never pay the toll. Croatian Proverb

Thoughts are toll free, but not hell free. German Proverb

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