haul off on

VERB

assault

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abuse invade rape shoot down violate

STRONG

advance assail bash beset blast blitz bushwhack charge jump ruin slam storm strike trash zap

WEAK

come down on go for jump down one's throat jump on one's case lay into let have it light into set upon slap around work over

Antonyms

STRONG

decrease praise retreat

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haul off on

It is high time that we should ’bout ship and haul off on the opposite tack, if we would not be regarded as impertinent intruders.

From The Voyage of the Aurora by Harry Collingwood

Upon this, the pilots were anxious to haul off on the larboard tack; but before the ship could be brought to the wind, she struck.

From Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly

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