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单词 haul
释义

haulverb [ T ]

uk/hɔːl/us/hɑːl/

C2 to pull something heavy slowly and with difficulty:

They hauled the boat out of the water.
She hauled herself up into the tree.

to take something or someone somewhere, especially by force:

FBI agents hauled away boxes of records.
The police hauled him off to jail in front of his whole family.

More examples

  • He hauled himself over the wall, grunting with the effort.
  • A freight train can haul thousands of tons of goods.
  • The fishermen were hauling the nets in at the back of the boat.
  • It took three men to haul the roller across the pitch.
  • We had to haul the wardrobe up three flights of stairs.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Pulling

  • draft
  • drag
  • draught
  • draw sth up
  • heave
  • heave-ho
  • heft
  • hitch
  • hitch sth up
  • pluck
  • pluck at sth
  • reel
  • reel sth in/out
  • retract
  • suck
  • tow
  • tow-away
  • traction
  • tweak
  • yank

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Idiom(s)

haul ass

Phrasal verb(s)

haul sb up

haulnoun [ C ]

uk/hɔːl/us/hɑːl/

haul noun [ C ] (AMOUNT)

C2 a usually large amount of something that has been stolen or is illegal:

a haul of arms/drugs

all the things someone buys on an occasion when they go shopping:

Check out the Ucinek family shopping haul.
I saw those gloves in a haul video.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Masses and large amounts of things

  • accumulation
  • an embarrassment of riches idiom
  • any number of things idiom
  • backlog
  • battery
  • boatload
  • bolus
  • clot
  • deluge
  • fund
  • lashing
  • lather
  • outpouring
  • panoply
  • plethora
  • predominance
  • preponderance
  • sheet
  • shower
  • thousand

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haul noun [ C ] (FISH)

the amount of fish caught:

Fishermen have been complaining of poor hauls all year.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

General words for size and amount

  • -sized
  • a whole lot idiom
  • amount
  • bulk
  • content
  • count
  • degree
  • element
  • flow
  • load
  • number
  • part
  • quantity
  • quota
  • ration
  • scale
  • size
  • small-scale
  • strength
  • take

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haul noun [ C ] (JOURNEY)

a journey, often a difficult one:

From there it was a long haul/only a short haul back to our camp.
See also
long-haul
short-haul

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Journeys

  • adventure
  • break-journey
  • carpool
  • carsick
  • convoy
  • foray
  • grand tour
  • journey
  • mystery tour
  • odyssey
  • outward-bound
  • peregrination
  • pilgrimage
  • ride
  • round trip
  • sail
  • short-haul
  • the long haul idiom
  • travelling
  • trip

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Idiom(s)

the long haul
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