exacted
- 1Simple past and past participle of exact.
The warlord exacted tribute from each village he conquered.
The long campaign exacted a devastating toll on the soldiers' morale.
Note
A regular -ed form that belongs only to the verb. The adjective exact, meaning precise or strict, shares the base spelling but has no past, so exacted never means "made precise." It carries every verbal sense: demanding payment or service, making something necessary, and inflicting harm, as when a campaign exacts a heavy toll. In the passive, the one who pays follows from: tribute was exacted from each village.
exacted is a form of exact
exact, verb: To demand and enforce the payment or performance of something, sometimes forcibly or imperiously. Full entry
- Spelling
- exact → exacted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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