Definition of hard put
: barely able : faced with difficulty or perplexity
- was hard put to find an explanation
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she was hard put to explain her department's excessive expenditures
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Having enacted so many new gun laws last year, state legislators were hard put to find new restrictions to pass this year.
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First Known Use of hard put
1893
hard put Synonyms
Synonyms
baffled, confounded, hard-pressed, nonplussed (also nonplused), perplexed;
Phrases
at a loss, put to it;
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