hard
adjective
not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
overhard
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a word derived from
hard.
Example Sentences
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He wrote his name on Oxford's roster—Cecil John Rhodes—but never studied overhard.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is true that some captains drive overhard; there are spirits in every rank not easily moved by pity; and indeed many follow arms who are no better than brigands.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
At the edge of the Lombardy poplars I heard Sagner swallowing a little bit overhard.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
They gained now on their pursuers, who had pressed their horses overhard to make up the five-mile handicap.
From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Brother, he saith, 'But it is nought: the work is overhard.'
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
