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hardest hit

hardest hit is the superlative 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 hardest hit

What is hardest hit the superlative form of?
Hardest hit is the superlative form of hard hit.

Words near hardest hit in the dictionary

  1. harders
  2. Harderses
  3. Harderwijk
  4. hardest
  5. hardest going
  6. hardest hit
  7. hardest left
  8. hardest nut to crack
  9. hardest nuts to crack
  10. hardest put
  11. hardest working

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