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Past tense of haul

regular verb

The past tense of haul is hauled. The past participle is also hauled.

Forms of haul

Base form (V1)haul /hɔːl/
Past tense (V2)hauled
Past participle (V3)hauled
Present participlehauling
Third person singularhauls

Hauled in a sentence

  • They threw him a lifesaver and then hauled him up onto the boat.From the entry lifesaver
  • The teacher hauled him over the coals for not doing his homework.From the entry haul someone over the coals
  • We hauled out a winger of grog.From the entry winger
  • He just hauled off and socked him in the jaw.From the entry haul off
  • The electric locomotive was being hauled dead in the train by a diesel over the unpowered diversion route.From the entry dead in the train

Meaning of haul

  1. verb To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
  2. verb To draw or pull something heavy.
  3. verb To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.

Full definition of haul

Questions about the past tense of haul

What is the past tense of haul?
The past tense of haul is hauled.
What is the past participle of haul?
The past participle of haul is hauled.
Is haul a regular or irregular verb?
Haul is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: haul (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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