Synonyms of exacts

exacts

verb

present tense third-person singular of exact

1

as in demands

to ask for (something) earnestly or with authority

every war inevitably exacts the greatest sacrifice possible from some of the nation's best and brightest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• demands
• requires
• requests
• commands
• claims
• wants
• asks
• enjoins
• insists (on)
• presses (for)
• needs
• stipulates (for)
• calls (for)
• takes
• imposes
• necessitates
• clamors (for)
• quests
• warrants
• pleads (for)
• cries (for)
• requisitions
• harasses
• hounds
• badgers
• duns

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• yields
• surrenders
• gives up
• relinquishes

2

as in imposes

to establish or apply as a charge or penalty

vowed to exact a heavy fine from any hockey player engaging in such outrageous behavior on the ice

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imposes
• charges
• fines
• levies
• puts
• assesses
• lays
• extorts
• inflicts
• penalizes
• taxes
• compels
• excises
• coerces
• forces
• wrings
• wreaks
• mulcts
• wrests
• bleeds
• docks
• gouges
• milks
• squeezes
• shakes down
• relays
• skins
• reapplies
• sets
• fleeces
• reimposes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• diminishes
• lessens
• remits
• abates
• ignores
• forgives
• disregards
• releases
• condones
• excuses
• glosses (over)
• pardons
• glozes (over)

3

as in extorts

to get (as money) by the use of force or threats

that loan shark can be counted upon to exact repayment of his loan by whatever means necessary

Synonyms & Similar Words

• extorts
• squeezes
• wrings
• coerces
• wrests
• forces
• compels
• bleeds
• milks
• gouges
• swindles
• cheats
• fleeces
• skins
• racketeers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of exacts

Shrinking lake ice exacts its price Depending on how much greenhouse gases warm the planet in the coming years, the average lake could lose up to 10 to 28 days of ice cover by the end of the century, says Sapna Sharma, a global change biologist at York University in Canada. —Berly McCoy, NPR, 2 Mar. 2026

Colonialization exacts a heavy toll. —Taylor Crumpton, Time, 10 Feb. 2026

But the Seahawks and their passionate fans will take it; this title represents Seattle's second Super Bowl triumph and exacts a measure of revenge for the heart-wrenching, last-second defeat in Super Bowl 49. —Jim Reineking, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026

Could the Golden Globes be where Kathy exacts her revenge? —Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026

Despite the toll Bug exacts, however, Coon is in exceptionally good humor—if with the blinking optimism of a new year in an unstable reality. —Juan A. Ramírez, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026

Afghanistan is, once again, under a Taliban regime that exacts even more extreme restrictions than those of Anjuman’s childhood. —Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025

However, mythmaking exacts costs on our understanding of the past. —Isaac Butler, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025

One game for the division (and the division’s one playoff spot)… And Seattle exacts revenge for 2019. —Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025