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hard-hit

hard-hit is the alternative spelling of hard hit.

Meaning of hard hit

Adjective

hard hit (comparative more hard hit or harder hit, superlative most hard hit or hardest hit)

  1. In severe difficulties; greatly affected by a problem.
    • East Coast ports, with old-established stockfishmongers and “stockfish rows”, hard hit by the collapse of business with Bergen, were naturally foremost in developing the possibilities of Iceland.1933, Eileen Power, M[ichael] M. Postan, editors, Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century, Routledge, published 2006, →ISBN

Forms of hard-hit

comparativemore hard-hit
comparativeharder-hit
superlativemost hard-hit
superlativehardest-hit

Questions about hard-hit

What is hard-hit the alternative spelling of?
Hard-hit is the alternative spelling of hard hit.

Words near hard-hit in the dictionary

  1. hard-headed
  2. hard-hearted
  3. hard-heartedly
  4. hard-heartedness
  5. hard-heartednesses
  6. hard-hit
  7. hard-hitting
  8. hard-land
  9. hard-landed
  10. hard-landing
  11. hard-lands

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