hard-hit in the PONS Dictionary

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The communities in which the work camps are held are often in economically deprived areas, or areas which have been especially hard-hit by natural disasters, including flooding or hurricanes.
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Many experts suspect the toll is still higher because children in hard-hit countries can die undiagnosed.
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Just as full-size railroads were being hard-hit by new technology, so too were model railroads.
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Many of the economic sectors that supplied these basic industries were also hard-hit.
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The town has been hard-hit by industrial closures.
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However, he also targeted non-manual workers such as teachers, clerks and city employees who had been hard-hit by profiteering during the war.
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Sustained aerial bombardment during the war had badly damaged most major cities, and industrial facilities were especially hard-hit.
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The air raid caused most of the dead and made an already hard-hit city largely leveled.
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Also, in an area hard-hit by poverty and prone to floods, it was found that many of the poor were unwilling to pay for flood protection.
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But it was one of the most hard-hit parts of the estate during the decline that began towards the end of the 1970s.
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