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Meaning of hard-hitting | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

Aggressively vigorous or forceful.

Equivalents

Suomi kovaiskuinen

Examples

“A packed schedule of 13 different inquiries ranged from parking on pavements to filling potholes, plus a hard-hitting examination of the Government's proposed Airports National Policy Statement and its recommendation to grant approval for a third runway to be built at Heathrow.”
“I found a Chugging Mask in the demo, which increased my health stat every time I drank a healing potion on full health, and then focused on piling on armour so I could wade through smaller encounters unscathed, and chug my way into tankhood so I could survive harder-hitting foes.”
“The hardest-hitting message of the weekend comes not from Huff but from guest speaker Charlotte Gambill, a UK-based traveling preacher who frequently speaks at women’s gatherings.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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