hard-fought
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4.7
- adjective
- /hɑrd fɔt/
- After a long season, the team celebrated their hard-fought championship victory.
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- However, thanks to these concessions and the hard fought victories of the country's armed forces, Finland avoids outright annexation.
- Instead we've had hard fought but none the less successful transitions off Mandela stepped down after one term.
- And those are hard fought hard, hard won recast relationships, which, you know, were really important, are important to me.
Examples
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Congratulations on winning such a hard-fought, and at times bitter, contest for the White House.
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Any person of sensitivity would have at least waited until this tough, hard-fought primary had ended.
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After a long, hard-fought trial, the jury found his clients not guilty.
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And I know that you will never forget that the freedom that we have today has been hard fought for by the people who came before us.
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But the win was hard-fought, and the margin of victory was small.
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French troops and their German allies stormed the town's bridge to win a hard fought victory.
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But, as this story demonstrates, the battle to allow African Americans equal access to the city's resources was hard fought.
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Now, after many hard-fought victories, our ranks have thinned.
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In sports, it looks like the Milford Haven Rangers will once again conclude a hard-fought season in defeat.
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Well, I never would've imagined it, but this has got to be the hardest-fought contest for the Harvest Cup we've seen in a long time, Willy.
Synonyms
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1.6
Not easy to do or understand
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4.4
Hard to do and needing a lot of effort
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7.7
Very difficult to do and needing a lot of effort over a long time
Antonyms
How Difficult
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7.0
16
4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hard-fought is made of hard ('difficult') and fought, the past of fight which means 'to struggle', and it gives the image of something won only after a strong struggle. So, a hard-fought victory or agreement is one that needed a lot of effort and determination.