hardship
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/
hardship
- Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
- He has survived periods of financial hardship before.
- French: difficultés, misère
- German: Härte, Not, Entbehrung, Mühsal, Elend, Beschwernis
- Italian: avversità, difficoltà
- Portuguese: dificuldade, apuro
- Russian: тру́дность
- Spanish: sufrimientos, apuro, penalidades
hardship (hardships, present participle hardshipping; past and past participle hardshipped)
- (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 […]
- 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)
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