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View synonyms for take its toll

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Be damaging or harmful, cause loss or destruction, as in The civil war has taken its toll on both sides , or The heavy truck traffic has taken its toll on the highways . This expression transfers the taking of toll , a tribute or tax, to exacting other costs. [Late 1800s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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