hard-hit
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.14 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Hard-hit by the Arctic winter, the Waverley route was completely closed from January 6-9, when an avalanche between Whitrope and Riccarton marooned Class A2 4-6-2 No. 60535 Hornet's Beauty."
- "Reading down both columns, the most hard-hit area, deathwise, was Sichuan and the most hard-hit area, birthwise, was Anhui province."
- "More small businesses in Texas were approved for money from the federal government’s initial coronavirus emergency lending program than in any other state – including harder-hit New York, California and Florida."
- "In mainland China, authorities have shut down travel out of and within the hardest-hit province, Jilin in the northeast. More than 1,800 cases were reported in Jilin on Friday, out of 2,400 nationwide. Restrictions were partially eased, however, in Shenzhen, a major tech and finance hub bordering Hong Kong that had been locked down since Sunday."
Inflected Forms
more hard-hit (comparative)
harder-hit (comparative)
most hard-hit (superlative)
hardest-hit (superlative)