Toll | Mean of toll in English Dictionary

/ˈtoʊl/

• Noun
• an amount of money that you are required to pay for the use of a road or bridge
1. We had to stop to pay the toll.
2. a toll road/bridge [=a road/bridge that you can use only if you pay a toll]
• an amount of money paid for a long-distance telephone call
• the number of people who are killed or injured in an accident, disaster, war, etc.
1. The full/final toll of the disaster is not yet known.

• to have a serious, bad effect on someone or something
1. If you keep working so hard, the stress will eventually take its toll. [=your health will be harmed]
2. The stress will take its toll on you.
3. Too much sunlight can take a (heavy) toll on your skin. [=can harm your skin]
4. Her illness has taken a toll on her marriage.
• Verb
• to ring slowly
1. Church bells tolled as people gathered for the service.
2. The bells were tolled for the service.
• to make (something) known by ringing
1. The church bells tolled the hour.
• Noun
• the sound of bells being rung slowly
1. The toll of the bells sounded throughout the village.
• a single sound made by a ringing bell
1. He counted the tolls of the bell.