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Synonyms & Antonyms of hard put
faced with difficulty or uncertainty about what to say, think, or do
- she was hard put to explain her department's excessive expenditures
Synonyms for hard put
- baffled,
- confounded,
- hard-pressed,
- nonplussed
- (also nonplused),
- perplexed
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The first known use of hard put was in 1893
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