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ride hard

ride hard verb: of a ship: to pitch violently.

Verb

ride hard (third-person singular simple present rides hard, present participle riding hard, simple past rode hard, past participle ridden hard)

  1. Of a ship: to pitch violently.

Forms of ride hard

third-person singular presentrides hard
present participleriding hard
pastrode hard
past participleridden hard

Questions about ride hard

What does ride hard mean?
Ride hard means of a ship: to pitch violently.
What part of speech is ride hard?
Ride hard is a verb.
What is the past tense of ride hard?
The past tense of ride hard is rode hard.

Words near ride hard in the dictionary

  1. ride down
  2. ride down on
  3. ride fence
  4. ride fences
  5. ride for
  6. ride hard
  7. ride hard and put away wet
  8. ride height
  9. ride heights
  10. ride herd on
  11. ride high

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