0 past simple and past participle of exact
1 to demand and get something, sometimes using force or threats:
to exact revenge on someone
The blackmailers exacted a total of $100,000 from their victims.
Heart surgery exacts tremendous skill and concentration.
Considerable rent arrears had built up, and unauthorized fees were being exacted.
He was the local head of his town and exacted tribute from other towns in his province.
The state supervised this process and exacted its dime.
Further, adjustments to the music exacted by its notation confirm the proposed identity.
Here, the costs of consumption are exacted in the loss of basic sociality.
This exertion exacted a severe toll on singers, and broken blood vessels in the chest were not rare.
Most borough charters reserved the fines exacted in borough courts for the corporation's use.
The ensuing chaos was surpassed only in the retribution exacted by the royal court.
