HALED Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

haled

verb

past tense of hale

as in hauled

to cause to follow by applying steady force on the fishermen haled the huge net onto the deck of the ship

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Most spend their lives at sea or hauled out on remote, uninhabited islands far from anyone.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
He was hauled out of the water and given CPR, but authorities later pronounced him dead.

— Jason Green, Mercury News, 15 July 2026

Definition of hauled

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Conine waited on a full-count changeup with one out in the fifth and pulled it over the fence in right-center field for a 1-0 lead.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026
His hair is pulled back in a knot, and his spear is aimed at something under the surface of the water.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026

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Scardovari, Italy — As the sun was rising, two fisherwomen dragged their boat through the Scardovari lagoon in northeastern Italy.

— Kasha Patel, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
The animation is often rudimentary, particularly in outer-space scenes that are effectively a cut-out of a starship being dragged across a stellar background.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026

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