Hard hit

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 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."

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"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."

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