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The Meaning of hard
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(superl.) Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
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(superl.) Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
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(superl.) Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
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(superl.) Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
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(superl.) Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
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(superl.) Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
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(superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
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(superl.) Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
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(superl.) Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.
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(superl.) Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
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(superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
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(superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
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(adv.) With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
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(adv.) With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
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(adv.) Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
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(adv.) So as to raise difficulties.
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(adv.) With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
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(adv.) Close or near.
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(v. t.) To harden; to make hard.
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(n.) A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
Rhymes
alard
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archard
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ard
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avant-garde
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backyard
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bard
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barde
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barnard
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barnyard
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barred
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beauregard
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bedard
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belgard
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bellard
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benard
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bernard
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berrard
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bevard
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billard
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blowhard
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blvd
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boatyard
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bodyguard
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boilard
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bolyard
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bombard
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bossard
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bouchard
,
bouffard
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boulevard
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bovard
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bozard
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brickyard
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brossard
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bunyard
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burchard
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burnard
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buzard
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byard
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canard
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card
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chard
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charred
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chouinard
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churchyard
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courtyard
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deckard
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denard
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dennard
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dewaard
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diehard
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dillard
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disbarred
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discard
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disregard
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dockyard
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eckard
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eckhard
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ekkehard
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farmyard
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gabbard
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gallard
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garard
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gard
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garde
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gaspard
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gerard
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gerhard
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giard
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gibbard
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girard
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giscard
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godard
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gossard
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graveyard
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guard
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guerard
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guichard
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hildegarde
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hypercard
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icard
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jarrard
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jarred
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junkyard
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lard
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lazard
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leotard
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lifeguard
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lumberyard
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maillard
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marquard
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marred
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mccard
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menard
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nard
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parde
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picard
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pickard
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postcard
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regard
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renard
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rennard
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retard
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revard
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ricard
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rocard
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safeguard
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scarred
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schoolyard
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scorecard
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shard
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shipyard
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sparred
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stockyard
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suchard
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tarred
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vanguard
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wildcard
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willyard
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yard
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yarde