hardship
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
Noun

hardship

  1. Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
    He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
Antonyms Translations Verb

hardship (hardships, present participle hardshipping; past and past participle hardshipped)

  1. (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
    • 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)
      […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]



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