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Taxing vs Distressing - What's the difference?

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Taxing is a related term of distressing.


As verbs the difference between taxing and distressing

is that taxing is while distressing is .

As adjectives the difference between taxing and distressing

is that taxing is with respect to an experience: exhausting; draining while distressing is causing distress; upsetting.

As a noun taxing

is the act of imposing a tax.

taxing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
  • Mentally challenging; difficult.
    • a taxing problem

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of imposing a tax.
  • * (Horace Binney)
    • Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City

    distressing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing distress; upsetting

    • Verb

    (head)