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• present tense form of heave (3rd person singular).

heaves

British  

/ hiːvz /

noun

1. Also called: broken wind.  a chronic respiratory disorder of animals of the horse family caused by allergies and dust

2. slang an attack of vomiting or retching

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Example Sentences

Heaves is a permanent disorder, but it may be relieved by climatic changes and careful attention to the animal's diet.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

Now in the fervid noon the smooth bright sea Heaves slowly, for the wandering winds are dead That stirred it into foam.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore

Then the mists Shut down again; a white uneasy sea Heaves round the climbers and beneath their feet.

From The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems by Huxley, Aldous

Mean time sad Nature feels his sway, the wave Heaves, and low sounds moan through the mountain cave; Then all at once is still, still as midnight, When not the lime-leaf moves: Oh, piteous sight!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

In all the views on one side Soracte is a striking object, as it From out the plain Heaves like a long-swept wave about to break And on the curl hangs pausing.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry