Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hale
Participle: haled
Gerund: haling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hale |
| you | hale |
| he;she;it | hales |
| we | hale |
| you | hale |
| they | hale |
Perfect
| I | have haled |
| you | have haled |
| he;she;it | has haled |
| we | have haled |
| you | have haled |
| they | have haled |
Past
| I | haled |
| you | haled |
| he;she;it | haled |
| we | haled |
| you | haled |
| they | haled |
Pluperfect
| I | had haled |
| you | had haled |
| he;she;it | had haled |
| we | had haled |
| you | had haled |
| they | had haled |
Future
| I | will hale |
| you | will hale |
| he;she;it | will hale |
| we | will hale |
| you | will hale |
| they | will hale |
Future Perfect
| I | will have haled |
| you | will have haled |
| he;she;it | will have haled |
| we | will have haled |
| you | will have haled |
| they | will have haled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hale |
| you | hale |
| he;she;it | hale |
| we | hale |
| you | hale |
| they | hale |
Perfect
| I | have haled |
| you | have haled |
| he;she;it | have haled |
| we | have haled |
| you | have haled |
| they | have haled |
Imperfect
| I | haled |
| you | haled |
| he;she;it | haled |
| we | haled |
| you | haled |
| they | haled |
Pluperfect
| I | had haled |
| you | had haled |
| he;she;it | had haled |
| we | had haled |
| you | had haled |
| they | had haled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hale |
| you | would hale |
| he;she;it | would hale |
| we | would hale |
| you | would hale |
| they | would hale |
Perfect
| I | would have haled |
| you | would have haled |
| he;she;it | would have haled |
| we | would have haled |
| you | would have haled |
| they | would have haled |
Imperative
| you | hale |
| we | Let's hale |
| you | hale |
Verbs conjugated like 'hale'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hale'
bale,
gale,
hade,
hake,
half,
halo,
halp,
halse,
halt,
halve,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English halen, from Anglo-Norman haler, from Old Dutch *halon (compare Dutch halen), from Proto-Germanic *halōną (compare Old English ġeholian, West Frisian helje, German holen), from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to lift”) (compare Latin ex-cellō (“to surpass”), Tocharian B käly- (“to stand, stay”), Albanian qell (“to halt, hold up, carry”), Lithuanian kélti (“to raise up”), Ancient Greek κελέοντες (keléontes, “upright beam on a loom”)). Doublet of haul. See: Old Dutch '*halon', Dutch '
halen', German, old spelling '
holen', Latin '
excello'.
Verbs referencing "hale"
Low Saxon halen.
Sample Sentences
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For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 6, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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A ſpacious Breach we make, and Troy’s proud Wall / Built by the Gods, by our own hands doth fall; / Thus, all their help to their own Ruin give, / Some draw with Cords, and ſome the Monſter drive / With Rolls and Leavers, thus our Works it climbs, / Big with our Fate, the Youth with Songs and Rhimes, / Some dance, ſome hale the Rope; at laſt let down / It enters with a thund’ring Noiſe the Town. [1636, John Denham, “The Destruction of Troy, an Essay on the Second Book of Virgil’s Æneis. Written in the Year 1636.”, in Poems and Translations; with the Sophy, a Tragedy, 5th edition, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], published 1709, →OCLC, page 38:]
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The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / —As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim— / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood / From these pale feet, which then might trample thee / If they disdained not such a prostrate slave. [1818–1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 21:]
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By night we dragg'd her to the college tower / From her warm bed, and up the corkscrew stair / With hand and rope we haled the groaning sow, / And on the leads we kept her till she pigg'd. [1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 51:]
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He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. [...] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, [...] [1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:]
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The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, / Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; / The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, / Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth. [1912, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Wanderlust”, in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 123:]
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As well hale a man to court for violation of an unenacted law. [1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “IV. Prometheus”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 117:]
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They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye. [1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 262:]