take its toll
To affect something, especially negatively; to damage or degrade; to cause harm or destruction.
Time had taken its toll on the old bridge, and it was no longer sound.
noun
A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
The war has taken its toll on the people.
A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
toll ore refining; toll manufacturing
A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.
A tollbooth.
We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.
verb
To impose a fee for the use of.
Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
To levy a toll on (someone or something).
No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.
To take as a toll.
To pay a toll or tallage.
I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.
noun
The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.