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HARD

Definition:

1. [adverb] with effort or force or vigor; "the team played hard"; "worked hard all day"; "pressed hard on the lever"; "hit the ball hard"; "slammed the door hard"
   
   
2. [adverb] with firmness; "held hard to the railing"
   Synonyms: firmly
   
   
3. [adverb] earnestly or intently; "thought hard about it"; "stared hard at the accused"
   
   
4. [adverb] causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure"
   Synonyms: severely
   
   
5. [adverb] slowly and with difficulty; "prejudices die hard"
   
   
6. [adverb] indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"
   Synonyms: heavily, intemperately
   
   
7. [adverb] into a solid condition; "concrete that sets hard within a few hours"
   
   
8. [adverb] very near or close in space or time; "it stands hard by the railroad tracks"; "they were hard on his heels"; "a strike followed hard upon the plant's opening"
   
   
9. [adverb] with pain or distress or bitterness; "he took the rejection very hard"
   
   
10. [adverb] to the full extent possible; all the way; "hard alee"; "the ship went hard astern"; "swung the wheel hard left"
    
    
11. [adjective] not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
    Synonyms: difficult
    
    
12. [adjective] metaphorically hard; "a hard fate"; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer"; "a hard climb"
    
    
13. [adjective] not yielding to pressure or easily penetrated; "hard as rock"
    
    
14. [adjective] very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow"
    Synonyms: knockout, severe
    
    
15. [adjective] characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
    Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome
    
    
16. [adjective] of speech sounds
    
    
17. [adjective] of a drinker or drinking; indulging intemperately; "does a lot of hard drinking"; "a heavy drinker"
    Synonyms: heavy
    
    
18. [adjective] having undergone fermentation; "hard cider"
    Synonyms: fermented
    
    
19. [adjective] having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor"
    Synonyms: strong
    
    
20. [adjective] unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
    Synonyms: tough
    
    
21. [adjective] dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
    
    

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