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harder hit

harder hit is the comparative form 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

Questions about harder hit

What is harder hit the comparative form of?
Harder hit is the comparative form of hard hit.

Words near harder hit in the dictionary

  1. hardens one's neck
  2. hardens someone's heart
  3. hardens up
  4. harder
  5. harder going
  6. harder hit
  7. harder left
  8. harder nut to crack
  9. harder nuts to crack
  10. harder put
  11. harder than Chinese math

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