- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
"the accident claimed three lives"
"The hard work took its toll on her"

- claim as due or just
"The bank demanded payment of the loan"

- (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth

- strictly correct
"a precise image"
"a precise measurement"

- marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact
"an exact mind"
"an exact copy"
"hit the exact center of the target"

1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.

"I took a great pains to make out the exact truth." -- Jowett (Thucyd. )

2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. "I see thou art exact of taste." Milton.

3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

"An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason." -- Shak.

1. To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.

"He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you." -- Luke. iii. 13.

"Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last" -- Dryden.

"My designs Exact me in another place." -- Massinger.

1. To practice exaction. [R.]

"The anemy shall not exact upon him." -- Ps. lxxxix. 22.