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has been heaving
  • present perfect progressive of heave (3rd person singular).

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He read on: Shari has been heaving up all day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since China has been heaving with revolution for the past 20 years, the great majority of these stories have social upheaval for their background.

From Time Magazine Archive

The music has been heaving and falling, as if with the warm palpitation of a vast breast, Nature's own, blissful with love and happy creative force.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall