Usually means: Struggling under significant pressure, difficulty.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word hard pressed:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hard-pressed: Merriam-Webster
  2. hard-pressed, hard pressed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hard-pressed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hard-pressed, hard-pressed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hard-pressed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hard-Pressed, Hard-pressed, hard-pressed: Wordnik
  7. hard-pressed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hard-pressed: Wiktionary
  9. hard-pressed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hard-pressed: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hard-pressed, hard pressed: Dictionary.com
  12. hard-pressed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. hard-pressed: Rhymezone
  14. hard-pressed: FreeDictionary.org
  15. hard-pressed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. hard-pressed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. hard pressed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hard-pressed: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hard pressed: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hard-pressed, hard pressed: Urban Dictionary



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