"take a toll" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes a toll",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking a toll",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took a toll",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken a toll",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> a toll"
      },
      "expansion": "take a toll (third-person singular simple present takes a toll, present participle taking a toll, simple past took a toll, past participle taken a toll)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "take its toll"
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Air marshals interviewed for this article said their biggest problem was the number of hours they were expected to fly. They are not allowed to sleep on flights, and back-to-back international trips involving prolonged periods of sitting awake take a toll.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of take its toll."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_a_toll-en-verb-zGh~drqN",
      "links": [
        [
          "take its toll",
          "take its toll#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take a toll"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes a toll",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking a toll",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took a toll",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken a toll",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> a toll"
      },
      "expansion": "take a toll (third-person singular simple present takes a toll, present participle taking a toll, simple past took a toll, past participle taken a toll)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "take its toll"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "Air marshals interviewed for this article said their biggest problem was the number of hours they were expected to fly. They are not allowed to sleep on flights, and back-to-back international trips involving prolonged periods of sitting awake take a toll.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of take its toll."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take its toll",
          "take its toll#English"
        ]
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "take a toll"
}