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Webster 1913 Edition


Hardship

Hard′ship

(härd′shĭp)
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Noun.
That which is hard to bear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
Swift.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hardship

H`ARDSHIP

,
Noun.
Toil; fatigue; severe labor or want; whatever oppresses the body.
1.
Injury; oppression; injustice.

Definition 2024


hardship

hardship

English

Noun

hardship (plural hardships)

  1. (countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
    He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

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Verb

hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple 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 []
    • 1970, Reading Reform Foundation, The Annual Reading Reform Foundation Conference (page 47)
      Although we lost the election by the narrowest of margins, the people of Oregon heard a great deal about education, and particularly about how "look-say" reading instruction was hardshipping Oregon school children.