Hard Put

Definition: Hard Put

Hard Put

Adjective

1. Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially".

Synonyms within Context: Hard Put

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Difficulty	Reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss; (uncertain); at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois, driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Hard Put

English words defined with "hard put": distressed ♦ hard up, hard-pressed ♦ in a bad way, in trouble ♦ practice, praxis ♦ To ease a ship, To put to it. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hard put": story ♦ TONGUE. (references)

Expression: Hard Put

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hard Put

Modern Translations: Hard Put

Language		Translations for "hard put"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		udìlat co jen s obtížemi (be hard put to do smth.). (various references)

Hungarian		nem könnyű neki (to be hard put to it), nehéz helyzetben van (he is in low water, to be hard hit, to be hard put to it), nagy bajban van (to be hard put to it). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		四苦八苦 (be in dire distress, hard put to it). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しくはっく (be in dire distress, hard put to it). (various references)

Pig Latin		ardhay utpay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Hard Put

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-h-p-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: prutah, purdah, updart.
	-2 letters: prahu, pruta, purda.
	-3 letters: dart, daut, drat, dura, hard, harp, hart, haut, hurt, pard, part, path, phat, phut, prat, prau, rapt, rath, ruth, tahr, tarp, thru, thud, trad, trap, turd.
	-4 letters: apt, art, dah, dap, duh, dup, had, hap, hat, hup, hut, pad, pah, par, pat, pht, pud, pur, put, rad, rah, rap, rat, rut, tad, tap, tar, tau, tup, urd, uta.
	-5 letters: ad, ah, ar, at, ha, pa, ta, uh, up, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-h-p-r-t-u"
	+3 letters: parachuted, upgathered.
	+4 letters: autographed, outpreached, superheated, thunderclap.
	+5 letters: proudhearted, stepdaughter, thunderclaps.
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