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hard-hit

adjective

  1. adversely affected; struck by disaster.


hard-hit

adjective

  1. seriously affected or hurt

    hard-hit by taxation

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hard-hit1

First recorded in 1825–30; hard ( def ) + hit ( def )
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The neighbouring three rural counties decided to close their underused vaccine clinics and send more staff to hard-hit Seminole.

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With two on and one out in the top of the second, Mookie Betts let a hard-hit one-hopper blaze by him at shortstop, getting charged with an error that allowed an unearned run to score.

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Roads, water services and buildings including hospitals have been destroyed, especially in Mandalay, the hard-hit city near the epicentre.

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The convoy was en route to Mandalay, the hard-hit city near the epicentre of the magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck last Friday.

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California winegrape farmers have been especially hard-hit.

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