haul – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to haul ass
Participle: hauled ass
Gerund: hauling ass

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	haul ass
we	Let's haul ass
you	haul ass

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to do things quickly and impatiently

fly, get a move on, haul ass, haul one's ashes, hie, hump it, hurry, hustle, make tracks, move it, rush, scream, shift, swap, vamoose

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb.
2. Cognates
3. The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”). See: Danish 'hale', Dutch 'halen', Old Frisian 'halia', Low Saxon 'halen', German, old spelling 'holen', Swedish 'hala'.

Verbs referencing "haul"

Spanish jalar, German, old spelling holen, Faroese hála, Galician halar, Spanish halar, Welsh halio.

Sample Sentences