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Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.
David Axelrod

Meaning of "hard-fought" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HARD-FOUGHT

hard-fought  [ˌhɑːdˈfɔːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARD-FOUGHT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hard-Fought is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HARD-FOUGHT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hard-fought in the English dictionary

The definition of hard-fought in the dictionary is firmly or passionately contested or struggled for.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HARD-FOUGHT


airport
ˈɛəˌpɔːt
bought
bɔːt
brought
brɔːt
caught
kɔːt
counterfort
ˈkaʊntəˌfɔːt
court
kɔːt
export
ˈɛkspɔːt
faut
fɔːt
fort
fɔːt
forte
fɔːt
fought
fɔːt
hillfort
ˈhɪlˌfɔːt
import
ɪmˈpɔːt
ort
ɔːt
ought
ɔːt
piedfort
ˈpɪedˌfɔːt
port
pɔːt
Porte
pɔːt
report
rɪˈpɔːt
unfought
ʌnˈfɔːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARD-FOUGHT

hard-ass
hard-assed
hard-bitten
hard-boiled
hard-drinking
hard-earned
hard-edge
hard-edged
hard-faced
hard-hat
hard-headed
hard-headedly
hard-headedness
hard-hit
hard-hitting
hard-left
hard-luck story
hard-mouthed
hard-nosed
hard-on

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARD-FOUGHT

aforethought
afterthought
bethought
dreadnought
drought
forethought
free thought
malice aforethought
New Thought
nought
overbought
overwrought
rethought
second thought
sought
taught
thought
unsought
unthought
unwrought
wrought

Synonyms and antonyms of hard-fought in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hard-fought» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARD-FOUGHT

Find out the translation of hard-fought to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hard-fought from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hard-fought» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

恶战
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

reñida
570 millions of speakers

English

hard-fought
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कड़ी मेहनत से लड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بشق الأنفس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

упорной
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

árdua
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হার্ড পরাজিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

âprement disputée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keras berjuang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hart umkämpften
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

激戦の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

격전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hard-fought
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cứng đã chiến đấu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடின ஈடுபட்டுள்ளன
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कठोर लढा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Zor geçen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

molto combattuto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zacięte
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

впертій
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

greu - au luptat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκληρό αγώνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

harde geveg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hårdnackad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hardt kjempet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hard-fought

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD-FOUGHT»

The term «hard-fought» is regularly used and occupies the 56.999 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD-FOUGHT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hard-fought

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QUOTES WITH «HARD-FOUGHT»

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David Axelrod
Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD-FOUGHT»

Discover the use of hard-fought in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hard-fought and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Hard-Fought Hope: Journeying with Job Through Mystery
Job's story and this book help us delve deeply into our losses and doubts and emerge with resolution that allows us to rebuild hope.
William Rudolf Long, Glandion Carney, 2004
2
Women Win the Vote: The Hard-Fought Battle for Women's Suffrage
"Discusses the history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, including the origins of the movement, the key figures in the struggle for suffrage, and the Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote.
Larry A. Van Meter, 2009
3
A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous
By the end of World War 2 they had all been sunk or scrapped. This book tells its story from 1919 to 1948.In 1940 Venomous and its sister ships evacuated troops from Boulogne and Dunkirk and guarded England against invasion.
Robert J. Moore, John A. Rodgaard, 2010
4
Hard fought victories: women coaches making a difference
Profiles women coaches in a variety of sports, including basketball, track, and swimming.
Sara Gogol, 2002
5
Long Left Flank: The hard Fought Way to the Reich 1944-1945
At war's end they had reached the Weser and were closing on the great naval bases of Emden and Wilhemshaven. Jeffery Williams won wide acclaim for his definitive biography Viscount Byng of Vimy.
Jeffery Williams, 1988
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Electing America's Governors: The Politics of Executive ...
There seems to be no pattern for incumbent open seat elections, which were largely hard fought regardless of year. Incumbent races, however, became less competitive over time. From 1980 to 1988, the average percentage of hard-fought  ...
David L. Leal, 2006
7
It May End Up Killing You: Hard-Fought Lessons From a Life ...
A top boxing trainer who has worked with Mike Tyson, Oscar De La Hoya, and Manny Pacquiao offers tales of his abusive youth, his own boxing career, his battle against Parkinson's disease, and his time training some of the greatest fighters ...
Freddie Roach, 2013
8
Black Belt
Hard-Fought. Battle. Against. Colgate. By Julienne Ravalgi and Maxine Brent NEW YORK CITY - College Karate - becoming more of a major enterprise — was given a big boost here when an Intercollegiate Eliminations Meet was set here to  ...
9
It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Cliches
This phrase, if used at all, is best employed as a preface to details that justify the use of a formulaic introduction. hard-fought battle 1 Junior officers led the army back to Cremona, near which in a hard-fought battle the Vitellian forces were ...
Orin Hargraves, 2014
10
The Electorate, the Campaign, and the Office: A Unified ...
Note: Races are categorized into low-key or hard-fought. Westlye (1991) codes are taken from the appendix to his book. CQ call follows the coding scheme proposed by Sinclair (1990). The spending ratio rule is to code a race low key when ...
Paul Gronke, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD-FOUGHT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hard-fought is used in the context of the following news items.
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Spartans lose hard-fought match to Outlaws
Spartans lose hard-fought match to Outlaws. By: Randy Pascal for NorthernLife.ca. | Jul 13, 2015 - 8:00 AM |. The Tri-City Outlaws edged the Sudbury Spartans ... «NorthernLife.ca, Jul 15»
2
Frank earns a handicap cut after hard-fought victory (From Gazette)
It was a hard-fought contest, with the winner on par and those in second and third just three over, having to be separated on countback. Warbey ... «Gazette, Jul 15»
3
Beechdown A battle to hard-fought win in mixed tennis league
BASINGSTOKE and District Tennis League Mixed Division One leaders Beechdown A gained a hard-earned point from a draw with Overton A thanks to a ... «Basingstoke Gazette, Jul 15»
4
Frank earns a handicap cut after hard-fought victory
It was a hard-fought contest, with the winner on par and those in second and third just three over, having to be separated on countback. Warbey carded 80-18-62 ... «Essex County Standard, Jul 15»
5
2015 USA Women's U19 World Championship Team Earns Hard
... the line to lead the USA (1-0) to a hard-fought, 85-82 exhibition victory over Australia's U19 squad (0-1) on Sunday evening in Mercia, Spain. «SportsPageMagazine.com, Jul 15»
6
Two hard fought wins in Parish Cup
Stromness and Holm won two hard-fought Parish Cup ties today as they beat St Andrews 3-2 and Rendall 1-0. In the day's earlier kick off, ... «The Orcadian, Jul 15»
7
Burgess Hill battle out hard-fought goalless draw with Northampton …
Burgess Hill recorded a hard-fought stalemate in their second friendly of the summer against Northampton Town of League 2. Ian Chapman ... «Mid Sussex Times, Jul 15»
8
Serious injury overshadows Spirit's hard-fought victory
WESTERN Spirit's 2-1 victory over Oxley was marred by a concerning injury to key player Rae Wilson. She suffered a suspected broken ankle ... «The Queensland Times, Jul 15»
9
Hard-fought victory matters more than tons for Rayudu
In a match that had a centurion from each team, it was inevitable that one would face heartbreak. And that one wasn't Ambati Rayudu. While the ... «Wisden India, Jul 15»
10
Misty Copeland's Hard-Fought Journey to Ballet Stardom
Misty Copeland's Hard-Fought Journey to Ballet Stardom. More. Copeland made history as the first African-American woman named principal ... «ABC News, Jul 15»

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