hard

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adj.

1 solid/stiff

VERBS

▪ be, feel, look, seem

▪

The chairs felt hard and uncomfortable.

▪ become, go

▪

Don't leave the cake uncovered or the icing will go hard.

▪ stay

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

PHRASES

▪ rock hard

▪

The toffee was rock hard.

2 difficult

VERBS

▪ be, look, seem

▪ become, get

▪

Life got very hard.

▪ make sth

▪

If you tell the children the answers, it only makes it harder for them to do the work on their own.

▪ find sth

▪

I found the exam quite hard.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ a little, slightly, etc.

Hard is used with these nouns: ↑bargaining, ↑bench, ↑biscuit, ↑blow, ↑bread, ↑cash, ↑cement, ↑chair, ↑cheese, ↑choice, ↑cider, ↑climb, ↑coal, ↑contact lens, ↑copy, ↑core, ↑court, ↑cover, ↑currency, ↑data, ↑day, ↑decision, ↑disk, ↑drinker, ↑drive, ↑drug, ↑earth, ↑effort, ↑evidence, ↑exercise, ↑face, ↑fact, ↑fight, ↑fighting, ↑floor, ↑foul, ↑freeze, ↑frost, ↑gaze, ↑graft, ↑ground, ↑hat, ↑heart, ↑jab, ↑job, ↑journey, ↑kick, ↑kiss, ↑knock, ↑labour, ↑landing, ↑lesson, ↑life, ↑line, ↑liquor, ↑look, ↑luck, ↑lump, ↑man, ↑margarine, ↑mattress, ↑mouth, ↑muscle, ↑news, ↑nipple, ↑palate, ↑part, ↑pavement, ↑penis, ↑punch, ↑push, ↑question, ↑race, ↑rain, ↑reality, ↑road, ↑rock, ↑sand, ↑science, ↑season, ↑shell, ↑shove, ↑skin, ↑slap, ↑smack, ↑snow, ↑stone, ↑struggle, ↑surface, ↑tackle, ↑task, ↑thigh, ↑thing, ↑think, ↑thinking, ↑time, ↑toil, ↑tone, ↑training, ↑truth, ↑tug, ↑water, ↑way, ↑wear, ↑week, ↑winter, ↑wood, ↑word, ↑work, ↑worker, ↑workout, ↑world, ↑year

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adv.

Hard is used with these verbs: ↑accelerate, ↑bang, ↑bargain, ↑battle, ↑bite, ↑blink, ↑blow, ↑brake, ↑breathe, ↑campaign, ↑clamp, ↑concentrate, ↑crack, ↑cry, ↑fight, ↑focus, ↑grip, ↑hit, ↑kick, ↑kiss, ↑laugh, ↑listen, ↑lobby, ↑pedal, ↑ponder, ↑practise, ↑pray, ↑press, ↑prune, ↑puff, ↑pull, ↑punch, ↑push, ↑rain, ↑ram, ↑ride, ↑rub, ↑shake, ↑shove, ↑slam, ↑slap, ↑smack, ↑snow, ↑squeeze, ↑stamp, ↑stare, ↑strain, ↑strike, ↑strive, ↑struggle, ↑study, ↑swallow, ↑tackle, ↑think, ↑thrust, ↑thud, ↑thump, ↑train, ↑try, ↑tug, ↑wish, ↑work