Vocabulary
Haul
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(of a person) pull or drag with effort or force.
Urdu meaning
کھینچنے کا عمل
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- When toxic gases overwhelm him, there is no ambulance; there are only fellow workers who haul his unconscious body out like a sack of waste.
- Barrick should address these concerns as it seems to be in Pakistan for a longer haul.
- To underline that he did not resent his long-haul commute `a wee beet`, he added, `Brother, my grandmother is still roughing it out on rickety donkey carts on unpaved African roads.` It was an apparent jibe at my antecedents in Tharparkar.
- The defence minister`s threat to haul up those exposing state secrets appears to be an overreaction.
- Much lil(e the global debate regarding the elusive definition of terrorism, overly broad interpretations of extremism could be used to haul up those critical of the state in the name of making the world safe from extremists.
Synonyms
drag, pull, tug, heave, hump, trail, draw, tow, manhandle, lug
Curator example
“he hauled his bike out of the shed”
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