heave

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verb (used with object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.

to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence: to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window.

Nautical.

to move into a certain position or situation: to heave a vessel aback.
to move in a certain direction: Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor!

to utter laboriously or painfully: to heave a sigh.

to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion: to heave one's chest.

to vomit; throw up: He heaved his breakfast before noon.

to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan: Heave the anchor cable!

verb (used without object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements: The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.

to breathe with effort; pant: He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort.

to vomit; retch.

to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge: The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around.

to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.

to push, as on a capstan bar.

Nautical.

to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays.
(of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.

noun

an act or effort of heaving.

a throw, toss, or cast.

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

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

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

Verb Phrases

heave down, Nautical. to careen (a vessel).

heave out, Nautical.

to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail).
to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.

heave to,

Nautical. to 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.
to come to a halt.

OTHER WORDS FOR heave

1 elevate.

2 hurl, pitch, fling, cast, sling.

11 surge, billow.

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Idioms about heave

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

heave in sight, to rise to view, as from below the horizon: The ship hove in sight as dawn began to break.

heave the lead. lead² (def. 17).

Origin of heave

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 “to take”

synonym study for heave

1. See raise.

OTHER WORDS FROM heave

heaver, nounheaveless, adjectiveun·heaved, adjective

Words nearby heave

heat-treat, heat up, heat urticaria, heat wave, heaume, heave, heave down, heave-ho, heave-ho, give the, heave into sight, heaven

How to use heave in a sentence

The vertigo, which she described as “horrendous,” was accompanied by dry heaves and an inability to focus her eyes.
Hours after a massage, a professor was wildly dizzy and deaf in one ear|Sandra G. Boodman|December 11, 2021|Washington Post
Then, Rogen convinces Franco to drink some contaminated water from a stream—which causes the 127 Hours Oscar nominee to dry-heave.
James Franco and Seth Rogen Get ‘Naked and Afraid’… And It’s Hilarious|Marlow Stern|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But Lomax can heave a small sigh of relief, at least for now: Legislative reform to the 1033 program will not happen in 2014.
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The Chinook vibrated with deeper and deeper groans until its twin engines managed to heave up our dead weight.
I Shot Bin Laden|Elliot Ackerman|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

But in a shocking turn of events, wrestling got eight of 14 votes and the heave-ho.
Sex, Bribes & Rhythmic Gymnastics: The IOC’s Biggest Scandals|Sujay Kumar|September 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Ornstein is a friend of mine, and was a colleague until I was given the heave-ho from AEI in March 2010.
It's Even Worse Than It Looks|David Frum|May 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He watched her, saw the little body heave down its entire length, noted the small convulsive movements of it.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
The men did “hold on” most powerfully; they did more, they hauled upon the rope, hand over hand, to a “Yo-heave-ho!”
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands|R.M. Ballantyne
The man roared furiously, and gave a convulsive heave that almost upset myself and the big chair, and disengaged the key!
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands|R.M. Ballantyne
No man on board knew when the sea might come which would heave her down, and they watched grimly as the gallant craft tore on.
The Chequers|James Runciman
Not another man stood on his feet, but the deck was strewn with the dead, whose bodies rolled about at every heave of the waves.
Stories of Our Naval Heroes|Various

British Dictionary definitions for heave

heave

/ (hiːv) /

verb heaves, heaving or heaved or mainly nautical hove

(tr) to lift or move with a great effort

(tr) to throw (something heavy) with effort

to utter (sounds, sighs, etc) or breathe noisily or unhappilyto heave a sigh

to rise and fall or cause to rise and fall heavily

(past tense and past participle hove) nautical

to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or positionto heave in sight
(intr) (of a vessel) to pitch or roll

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

(intr) to retch

noun

the act or an instance of heaving

a fling

the horizontal displacement of rock strata at a fault

Derived forms of heave

heaver, noun

Word Origin for heave

Old English hebban; related to Old Norse hefja, Old Saxon hebbian, Old High German heffen to raise, Latin capere to take, Sanskrit kapatī two hands full

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