hale/hail
hale (hāl)
Adjective
- Free from infirmity or illness; sound.
hail (hāl)
Noun
- Precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) in diameter.
- Something that falls with the force and quantity of a shower of ice and hard snow: a hail of pebbles; a hail of criticism.
Verb. Intransitive
- To precipitate in pellets of ice and hard snow.
- To fall like hailstones: Condemnations hailed down on them.
Verb. Transitive
- To pour (something) down or forth: They hailed insults at me.
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