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hit hard

hit hard is the alternative 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

Forms of hit hard

comparativemore hit hard
superlativemost hit hard

Questions about hit hard

What is hit hard the alternative form of?
Hit hard is the alternative form of hard hit.

Words near hit hard in the dictionary

  1. hit bottom
  2. hit by pitch
  3. hit counter
  4. hit counters
  5. hit different
  6. hit hard
  7. hit home
  8. hit into the long grass
  9. hit it
  10. hit it and quit it
  11. hit it big

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