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heave

[heev]

verb (used with object)

heaved , hove, heaving .
  1. to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence.

    The sailors began heaving the cargo overboard.

    I saw someone heave a brick through the window.

    Synonyms: , , , ,
  2. to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist.

    He tried to heave the sledgehammer, but he wasn’t strong enough.

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  3. to utter laboriously or painfully.

    He heaved a sigh.

  4. to cause to rise and fall with or as if with a swelling motion.

    She stood there weeping, sobs heaving her chest as she covered her face.

  5. to vomit; throw up.

    He heaved his breakfast before noon.

  6. Nautical.Ģż

    1. to move into a certain position or situation.

      to heave a vessel aback.

    2. to move in a certain direction.

      Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor!

  7. to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.) with the hands, a winch, a capstan, or the like.

    Heave the anchor cable!



verb (used without object)

heaved , hove, heaving .
  1. to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements.

    The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.

  2. to breathe with effort; pant.

    He sat there heaving and puffing from the exertion.

  3. to vomit or retch.

    The smell of the nearby meat processing plant made me heave.

  4. (of the ground, pavement, etc.) to rise as if thrust up; swell or bulge.

    The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around.

    Repeated freezing and thawing will cause the pavement to heave.

    Synonyms: ,
  5. to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc..

    We heaved on the rope with all our might, but the log did not budge.

  6. to push, as on a capstan bar.

  7. Nautical.Ģż

    1. to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.

      heave about;

      heave alongside;

      heave in stays.

    2. (of a vessel) to rise and fall on high waves, especially waves passing at right angles to the ship.

noun

  1. an act or effort of lifting, pulling, or pushing.

    With one mighty heave they managed to haul the unconscious man into the boat.

  2. a throw, toss, or cast.

    With a great heave, she threw the stone out of the garden bed.

  3. Informal.Ģżthe act of rejecting or expelling, or the attempt to do so.

    The politician narrowly survived a heave by his own party.

  4. an effortful act of vomiting, retching, coughing, or sighing.

    With a heave he coughed up the river water in his lungs.

    She turned away and bent over as a heave overcame her.

  5. Geology.Ģżthe horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.

  6. the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.

    The ship’s motion is so stable, one doesn’t feel the heave of the ocean.

  7. Also called broken wind.Ģż(used with a singular verb)Ģżheaves, a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing.

verb phrase

    1. NauticalĢżto stop the headway of (a vessel), especially by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another.

    2. to come to a halt.

  1. NauticalĢżto careen (a vessel).

  2. NauticalĢż

    1. to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail).

    2. to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.

heave

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verb

  1. (tr) to lift or move with a great effort

  2. (tr) to throw (something heavy) with effort

  3. to utter (sounds, sighs, etc) or breathe noisily or unhappily

    to heave a sigh

  4. to rise and fall or cause to rise and fall heavily

  5. (past tense and past participle hove) nautical

    1. to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position

      to heave in sight

    2. (intr) (of a vessel) to pitch or roll

  6. (tr) to displace (rock strata, mineral veins, etc) in a horizontal direction

  7. (intr) to retch

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the act or an instance of heaving

  2. a fling

  3. the horizontal displacement of rock strata at a fault

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • heaver noun
  • heaveless adjective
  • unheaved adjective
  • ˈ³ó±š²¹±¹±š°ł noun
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of heave1

First recorded before 900; Middle English heven, variant (with -v- from simple past tense and past participle) of hebben, Old English hebban; cognate with German heben, Old Norse hefja, Gothic hafjan; akin to Latin capere ā€œto takeā€
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of heave1

Old English hebban; related to Old Norse hefja, Old Saxon hebbian, Old High German heffen to raise, Latin capere to take, Sanskrit °ģ²¹±č²¹³ŁÄ« two hands full
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. heave ho, (an exclamation used by sailors, such as when heaving the anchor up.)

  2. heave the lead. lead.

  3. heave in sight, to rise to view, such as from below the horizon.

    The ship hove in sight as dawn began to break.

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Example Sentences

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ā€œEverything,ā€ El Coronel said, heaving a sigh of relief, ā€œis calm.ā€

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Malak heaves and leaks tears, stuffs a tattered tissue into the corners of her eyes.

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A once quiet dusty border town, it has turned into a transit hub, heaving with refugees from both Sudan and its neighbour to the south.

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ā€œNo, you definitely did not,ā€ I said, heaving while cowering from my Ivy League prince.

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Although in a heaving square, he was more at risk of being mobbed by a battalion of dignitaries than people who had come to see him.

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Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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