hard-hit

American  

adjective

1. adversely affected; struck by disaster.

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hard-hit British  

adjective

1. seriously affected or hurt

   hard-hit by taxation

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Etymology

Origin of hard-hit

First recorded in 1825–30; hard ( def. ) + hit ( def. )

Example Sentences

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul visited a shelter for evacuees in hard-hit Hat Yai district on Friday.

From Barron's

In the hard-hit mountainous province of Dak Lak, 61-year-old farmer Mach Van Si said the floodwaters left him and his wife stranded on their sheet-metal rooftop for two nights.

From Barron's

In Santa Monica, which borders the hard-hit Palisades neighborhood, the median rent rose 2% in October from a year earlier, according to data from Apartment List.

From Los Angeles Times

New Zealand got off to a flying start racing to 69 off 7.1 overs before Tim Robinson departed for a hard-hit 45, having smacked five fours and three sixes.

From Barron's

Officials agreed, according to the minutes, that rate policy “cannot target specific sectors or open new markets. However, members agreed that monetary policy could play a role in mitigating the spillovers from hard-hit sectors to the rest of the economy.”

From The Wall Street Journal