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According to WordNet, the adjective "hard" has 12 sense(s).

300836544 characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace".

301127302 unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break".

301156505 (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants".

300744916 not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?".

301299173 given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker".

301155354 dispassionate; "took a hard look"; "a hard bargainer";.

301150915 resisting weight or pressure.

301157762 (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source.

302322512 very strong or vigorous; "strong winds"; "a hard left to the chin"; "a knockout punch"; "a severe blow".

301069715 dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before".

301158974 being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content; "hard liquor".

302286294 produced without vibration of the vocal cords; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'".


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