to haul off
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4.1
- phrasal verb
:
retirar
- In other words, the stones were pulled down and hauled off by locals for building material.
Examples
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Each week, huge loads of waste are hauled off to a landfill.
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Holmes will walk through and pick the houses worth saving and immediately haul off what isn't worth saving.
Blog text (9) -
And just leave this laying here for somebody else to haul off?
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A bunch of soldiers were hauling off a young kid.
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And right now it's being cut down and hauled off in mass.
Blog text (14) -
So paying to have your trash hauled off is a foreign concept to me.
Blog text (28) -
And in their wake rumbled trucks to haul off the remains.
Fiction book (1990) -
Soon, Grind-All began clearing numerous projects and leaving the chips on site to be hauled off to one of its storage locations.
Academic text (1999) -
The door was missing, as were virtually all the doors in the complex, hauled off by the salvagers and resold for a few bucks apiece.
Fiction book (1992) -
By sundown, almost everything from the yard had been hauled off in pickups and trailers.
Synonyms
157
2.1
To carry something in a vehicle or over a long distance
125
2.6
Take things or people out of a vehicle like a truck
45
3.4
To leave people or things at a place from a vehicle
41
2.7
To take something off from where it is attached
11
3.9
To take goods off a vehicle or container
8
3.4
To take away large or heavy things using a vehicle
4
5.9
To take someone or something away by vehicle, often quickly and without care
4
4.4
To take a person to another place or to move someone's feelings suddenly
1
4.1
To take something away in a vehicle, often because it is large or unwanted
1
7.0
To carry someone or something away from a place to another
To take goods off a vehicle like a ship
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to remove or take away by vehicle' is directly derivable from combining 'haul' (to move or convey goods) with the particle 'off' (indicating removal). This verb + particle composition follows a common, literal English pattern (and similar removal constructions exist in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Haul off comes from the simple picture of a truck or strong people pulling heavy things away, with haul meaning to pull and off showing moving away. So it now means 'to remove or take away something', often by using a vehicle.