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haul down

haul down verb: to violently cause to fall to the ground.

Verb

haul down (third-person singular simple present hauls down, present participle hauling down, simple past and past participle hauled down)

  1. (transitive) To violently cause to fall to the ground.
    • But the visitors' win was all but sealed when Diouf was hauled down by Tamas as he raced towards goal late on and the Romanian was duly sent off.2010 December 28, Kevin Darling, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC

Forms of haul down

third-person singular presenthauls down
present participlehauling down
past participlehauled down
pasthauled down

Questions about haul down

What does haul down mean?
Haul down means to violently cause to fall to the ground.
What part of speech is haul down?
Haul down is a verb.
What is the past tense of haul down?
The past tense of haul down is hauled down.

Words near haul down in the dictionary

  1. Hauke
  2. Haukes
  3. haul
  4. haul around
  5. haul ass
  6. haul down
  7. haul girl
  8. haul girls
  9. haul in
  10. haul off
  11. haul one's ashes

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