tasked

Verb

task (third-person singular simple present tasks, present participle tasking, simple past and past participle tasked)

1. (transitive) To assign a task to; to impose a task on.
   • On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
2. (transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
   • He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
   1. (obsolete, transitive) To institute a tax on.
3. (transitive) To charge, as with a fault.
   • Too impudent to task me with those errors.c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii

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