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hard pressed

adjective

Roget 684: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.    ... show more

Roget 704: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; ... show more

Roget 706: hindering etc. v.; obstructive, obstruent; impeditive, impedient; intercipient; prophylactic etc. (remedial) 662; impedimentary.    in the way of, ... show more

Moby thesaurus: at the double, crowded, desperate, double-quick, double-time, hard up, hard-pressed, hard-pushed, hard-run, hurried, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, on the double, pinched, pressed, pressed for time, pushed, rushed, sorely pressed ... show more.

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