Word Meanings - TOLL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOLL)

• Impost
• Imposition
• tax
• burden
• custom
• toll
• tribute
• excise
• duty

Related words: (words related to TOLL)

• BURDENER
  One who loads; a oppressor.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• IMPOSTURAGE
  Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
• CUSTOM
  Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription. Note: Usage is a fact. Custom is a law. There can be no custom without usage, though there may be usage without
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• EXCISE
  to cut out or off; ex out, off + caedere to cut; or, as the word was formerly written accise, fr. F. accise, LL. accisia, as if fr. L. accidere, accisum, to cut into; ad + caedere to cut; but prob. transformed fr. OF. assise, LL. assisa, assisia,
• IMPOSTHUMATION
  1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
• CUSTOMARY
  Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. (more info) 1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment.
• CUSTOMABLE
  1. Customary. Sir T. More. 2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
• CUSTOMHOUSE
  The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.
• IMPOSTURY
  Imposture. Fuller.
• TRIBUTER
  One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value. Note: Tributers generally work in gangs, and have a limited portion of a lode set them, called a tribute pitch, beyond which they are not permitted to work, and for which they receive
• IMPOSTROUS
  Characterized by imposture; deceitful. "Impostrous pretense of knowledge." Grote.
• IMPOSTHUME
  A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.
• BURDENOUS
  Burdensome. "Burdenous taxations." Shak.
• EXCISEMAN
  An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty. Macaulay.
• IMPOST
  The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests. Note: The impost is called continuous, if the moldings of the arch or architrave run down the jamb or pier without a break. Syn. -- Tribute; excise; custom; duty;
• IMPOSTURE
  The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson. Syn. -- Cheat; fraud; trick; imposition; delusion.
• BURDENSOME
  Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton. Syn. -- Heavy; weighty; cumbersome; onerous; grievous; oppressive; troublesome. -- Bur"den*some*ly, adv. -- Bur"den*some*ness,
• IMPOSTURED
  Done by imposture.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• DISACCUSTOM
  To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.
• RETRIBUTER
  One who makes retribution.
• SELF-IMPOSTURE
  Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.
• OVERBURDEN
  To load with too great weight or too much care, etc. Sir P. Sidney.
• UNBURDEN
  1. To relieve from a burden. 2. To throw off, as a burden; to unload.
• ACCUSTOMABLE
  Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.