Definition of Taxing

requiring significant physical or mental effort

Examples of Taxing in a sentence

For some people, high level mathematics is simple, but for others even algebra can be taxing and mentally exhausting.  🔊

Many young parents find it especially taxing to care for young children, since they do not have the experience of dealing with the noise and the endless energy.  🔊

Introverts often find it very taxing to deal with extroverts all day, since the latter tend to grate on individuals that need solitude every once in a while.  🔊

I find it taxing when I am forced to deal with people that I don’t get along with, but sometimes there is no other alternative.  🔊

It is extremely taxing to work in dangerous lines of work for a living, since you are under stress and risk every day in those situations.  🔊

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