hardship
/ˈhɑɹdˌʃɪp/ verb C2- To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
He/she/it hardships · Past hardshipped · Past participle hardshipped · -ing form hardshipping
Verb forms
- Base form
- hardship
- He/she/it
- hardships
- Past
- hardshipped
- Past participle
- hardshipped
- -ing form
- hardshipping
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly.
Where in the tropics could an English army doctor have seen much hardship and got his arm wounded?
“I am very sensible, madam, of the hardship to my fair cousins, and could say much on the subject, but that I am cautious of appearing forward and precipitate.
The movement eventually faded when the Great Depression caused severe economic hardship across the country.
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