Meaning of سخت in English

Of, pertaining to, or containing, silver; -- said of certain silver compounds in which silver has a higher proportion than in argentic compounds; as, argentous chloride.
Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
Lasting.
Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.
The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense.
To subject to duress.
of Dare
of Dare. See Dare, v. i.
Given to eating; voracious; devouring.
Lacking nerve or force; enervated.
of Exact
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
Fruitful; productive; profitable.
Fit to make one aghast; dismal.
Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping; as, a hard lot; hard times; hard fare; a hard winter; hard conditions or terms.
Difficult to please or influence; stern; unyielding; obdurate; unsympathetic; unfeeling; cruel; as, a hard master; a hard heart; hard words; a hard character.
Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style.
Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.
Abrupt or explosive in utterance; not aspirated, sibilated, or pronounced with a gradual change of the organs from one position to another; -- said of certain consonants, as c in came, and g in go, as distinguished from the same letters in center, general, etc.
Wanting softness or smoothness of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone.
Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
With pressure; with urgency; hence, diligently; earnestly.
With difficulty; as, the vehicle moves hard.
Uneasily; vexatiously; slowly.
So as to raise difficulties.
With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
Close or near.
To harden; to make hard.
A ford or passage across a river or swamp.
of Harden
Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying.
To become confirmed or strengthened, in either a good or a bad sense.
Making hard or harder.
That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
of Harrow
Rough; disagreeable; grating
disagreeable to the touch.
disagreeable to the taste.
disagreeable to the ear.
Unpleasant and repulsive to the sensibilities; austere; crabbed; morose; abusive; abusive; severe; rough.
Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony.
Full of ire; angry; wroth.
Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.
Speaking; expressive.
Apt to blab and disclose secrets.
Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
Serving to fix colors.
Any corroding substance used in etching.
Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.
Bearing branches; branched.
Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone.
Having no ribs.
Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
Violent.
Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
Expressing sorrow.
Nice; particular; fastidious; excellent; fine.
An absorbent.
Filthy; foul; dirty.
Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals.
Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly.
Alt. of Staunchness
The black tern.
Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
Fig.: The post of management or direction.
The hinder part of anything.
The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
A director.
Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.
Sternutative.
A sternutatory substance or medicine.
Antimonious.
of Sty
Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
To make torpid; to benumb.
To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
of Stiffen
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
Somewhat stiff.
A Dutch coin, and money of account, of the value of two cents, or about one penny sterling; hence, figuratively, anything of little worth.
Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.
of Stratify
imp. & p. p. of Stretch.
To stretch; to make straight.
Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.
Loud; boisterous.
An owl.
See Strickle.
Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
Making a shrill, creaking sound.
Contentious; discordant.
Strigose.
A stock of breeding mares.
Scrofulous; strumous.
To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.
Scrofulous; having struma.
Spirituous liquor.
To swell; to bulge out.
To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.
Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.
To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.
Protuberant.
Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.
of Strut
Full of stumps; hard; strong.
Short and thick; stubby.
Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.
of Swelter
A sound; a groan; a moan; a sough.
A swoon.
Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.
Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.
Unwary; unready.
Criminal; guilty.
To make tardy.
Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.
Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.
Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous.
Alt. of Tartaric
The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.
Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
Thin; slender; small; minute.
Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant.
An imaginary being supposed by the Christians to be a Mohammedan deity or false god. He is represented in the ancient moralities, farces, and puppet shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous.
A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person; -- formerly applied to both sexes, now only to women.
Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous; furious; quarrelsome; scolding.
Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe.
To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
of Tighten
A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer.
Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care.
Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.
Affected with tormina; griping.
of Torrefy
Sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim.
To grow or make tough, or tougher.
of Toughen
Tough in a slight degree.
One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
As much as a tureen can hold; enough to fill a tureen.