to haul up

Examples

• All

• After driving for hours, the bus finally hauled up at the rest area.

• The truck will haul up alongside the road to let passengers off.

• Mona and I sweated, sighed, and hauled the bags up the back stairs into the kitchen to find my mother in a bad mood.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Sweating Egyptian laborers were hauling immense stones up an incline.

  Fiction book (1997)

• From the hall, she heard a series of thumps—the twins' suitcase, no doubt, being hauled up the stairs.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Hardly slowing his gait, he leaned over to seize Lucian by the jacket, hauled him up in one powerful motion, and set him in front of himself.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The taxi hauled up in front of the hotel just as it started to rain.

Synonyms

P

to pull over

vsto haul up

294 2.8

To move a vehicle to the side of the road and stop

is stopping after moving, often at the side or a set place

P

to pull up

vsto haul up

163 2.8

To stop or slow down a vehicle at a place

usually refers to stopping after movement at a side or place

R

to roll up

vsto haul up

• Informal

24 6.0

Arrive in a vehicle in a way that people notice

implies coming to a stop at the side or a set location

D

to draw up

vsto haul up

5 3.6

To stop a vehicle at a place

focuses on stopping after movement, often beside a road

P

to pull in to the side of the road

vsto haul up

• UK

3.0

Drive a car to the side of the road and stop

stops after moving, not only near the road edge

Antonyms

S

to start

∞ 1.0

To begin an action, event or process

How Fast

to slam on the brakes

• Informal

6 3.2

to haul up

• UK

1 6.0

to slow down

687 1.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology