hard hit
Walloped by misfortune
Hard hit describes something or someone severely affected by damaging circumstances.
An economy can be hard hit by recession, a community hard hit by flooding, a family hard hit by illness.
The phrase emphasizes the severity of impact: Restaurants were hard hit by the pandemic.
In sports, hard hit describes a ball struck with force: a hard-hit grounder to third.
- blowMove air forcefully
- punchStrike with fist
- gut punchShocking emotional blow
- affectedArtificially contrived behavior
- strickenSeriously affected by adversity
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