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

How to use heave in a sentence

I upchucked into the green grass, and once my stomach was empty, I dry heaved for a while.
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We can hear the swish of leather as saddles are heaved on our backs.
The Revolt Against the Masses and the Roots of Modern Liberalism|Fred Siegel|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
An official put the chain in a plastic bag and heaved it into the cold water.
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And suddenly Hicks jerked up his knees and heaved himself bodily aside with a scream of fear.
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Jake's broad chest heaved as he asked this question, to which the Colonel replied, "That is what I came for."
The Cromptons|Mary J. Holmes
Then, as if being more fully awakened he recognized his master, he heaved himself suddenly to his feet and bowed.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
Having penned these lines, Queeker heaved a deep sigh—cast one long lingering gaze on the moon, and went to bed.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands|R.M. Ballantyne
Bascomb muttered something to himself, his shoulders heaved and his hands clenched spasmodically.
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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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