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Verb hale has 2 senses
- coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force - to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
--1 is one way to compel, oblige, obligate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
- haul, hale, cart, drag - draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"
--2 is one way to pull, draw, force
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
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