hale
pronunciation
How to pronounce hale in British English:
UK [heɪl]
How to pronounce hale in American English:
US [hel]
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- Verb:
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"
- draw slowly or heavily
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- Adjective:
- exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
Word Origin
- hale
- hale: see whole
- hale (adj.)
- "in good health, robust," Old English hal "healthy, sound, safe; entire; uninjured; genuine, straightforward" (see health). The Scottish and northern English form of whole and with a more etymological spelling. It later acquired a literary sense of "free from infirmity" (1734), especially in reference to the aged. Related: Haleness.
- hale (v.)
- c. 1200, "drag, pull," in Middle English used of arrows, bowstrings, reins, swords, anchors, etc., from Old French haler "to pull, haul, tow, tug" (12c.), from Frankish *halon or Old Dutch halen or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *halon "to call," from PIE *kele- (2) "to shout" (see claim (v.)). Figurative sense of "to draw (someone) from one condition to another" is late 14c. Related: Haled; haling.
Example
- 1. Starr had done the same thing for david hale .
- 2. Mrs. hale : I might have known she needed help !
- 3. Hale 's son always said that , in his father 's case , languages were a cloak for a shy man .
- 4. In return , mcdougal would lend hale more than $ 8 00000 from madison guaranty , enabling him to get another million dollars from the small business administration .
- 5. We now know that a lot of the so-called information that fueled the damaging but erroneous stories was fed to the press by david hale and the right-wingers who adopted him for their own purposes .