Hale (Verb)
Meaning 1
To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means; "She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- The manager haled the reluctant employee into her office to discuss the recent performance issues.
- She was haled into court to testify against her former business partner.
- He was haled before a congressional committee to answer questions about his role in the scandal.
- The popular author haled his creative team into the conference room for an emergency meeting.
- The artist was haled into the spotlight to receive the prestigious award for outstanding contribution.
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Meaning 2
Draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- We had to hale the heavy crates up the stairs by a rope.
- The fisherman haled the struggling fisherman aboard after the fall.
- Soldiers were forced to hale massive canons into their final placements.
- We spent hours haling buckets of water to the crops in desperate need of hydration.
- Working together they managed to hale a two-hundred-year-old ship out of its resting place.