Heave
verb
To lift or pull something with a lot of effort.
He heaved the heavy box onto the shelf
Often appears as...
- heave a sigh
- heave into view
verb
To throw or hurl.
She heaved the ball across the field
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- heave a stone
- heave a missile
verb
To breathe deeply and loudly.
After running the race, he was heaving for breath
Often appears as...
- heave for breath
- heave with emotion
verb
To vomit.
The sight of the bloody scene made him heave
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- heave one's lunch
- heave up breakfast
Usage tips
Disapproving
Informal
verb
To rise and fall rhythmically.
His chest heaved with each breath he took
Often appears as...
- heave in rhythm
- heave with emotion
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Poetic
noun
A strong pull or effort to do something.
With a final heave, she was able to lift the box
Often appears as...
- a strong heave
- one final heave
noun
An act of vomiting.
After finishing the roller coaster ride, he had a sudden heave
Usage tips
Disapproving
Informal
verb
To lift or pull something with a lot of effort.
He heaved the heavy box onto the shelf
Often appears as...
- heave a sigh
- heave into view
verb
To throw or hurl.
She heaved the ball across the field
Often appears as...
- heave a stone
- heave a missile
verb
To breathe deeply and loudly.
After running the race, he was heaving for breath
Often appears as...
- heave for breath
- heave with emotion
verb
To vomit.
The sight of the bloody scene made him heave
Often appears as...
- heave one's lunch
- heave up breakfast
Usage tips
Disapproving
Informal
verb
To rise and fall rhythmically.
His chest heaved with each breath he took
Often appears as...
- heave in rhythm
- heave with emotion
Usage tips
Poetic
noun
A strong pull or effort to do something.
With a final heave, she was able to lift the box
Often appears as...
- a strong heave
- one final heave
noun
An act of vomiting.
After finishing the roller coaster ride, he had a sudden heave
Usage tips
Disapproving
Informal
Definition 1 of 7
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Effort
Emphasizes the strain or struggle involved when moving something heavy.
The movers heaved the piano up the stairs with great effort.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Graceful
Suggests a lack of grace or elegance in the action; it's often laborious and awkward.
He heaved the sack onto his back, staggering a little.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Effort
Emphasizes the strain or struggle involved when moving something heavy.
The movers heaved the piano up the stairs with great effort.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Graceful
Suggests a lack of grace or elegance in the action; it's often laborious and awkward.
He heaved the sack onto his back, staggering a little.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Effort
Emphasizes the strain or struggle involved when moving something heavy.
The movers heaved the piano up the stairs with great effort.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Graceful
Suggests a lack of grace or elegance in the action; it's often laborious and awkward.
He heaved the sack onto his back, staggering a little.
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Safari Live - Day 329 PIPE...
and she was senior and then obviously again today which is very very cool so really nice that she was seen like I said not jealous at to his master and everybody gets to see the spotted cats and what I am jealous all I think is that the Mara has been absolutely heaving with animals of late I mean between the sausages and all the Cubs
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What's below the tip of...
As it floats along, it is battered by waves, melts, and smashes into land and sometimes other icebergs. Some icebergs are so unstable that they have more dramatic ends, heaving up, collapsing, and sometimes even exploding. And as they fall apart,
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How to Discover Your...
OK, you know that I’m going to show up, and I’ve got a pep in my high heel, red-bottom step. I do have heaving cleavage. And I’ve got a tell-it-like-it-is approach to life that’s always dosed with a ladle of love. It took me 55 years to get here.
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Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...
free nephilim won't be able to reclaim it now even so argirotes must get it away to a place where she can feed on it in safety step by step she heaves it up her theft is complete one of the stars tiny giants is a creature that lives in
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My journey from Marine...
And the drunk man, the janitor man, is huddled in a corner, praying to Saint Anthony 'cause that's the only one he could remember. And there's eyes glowing white, cape blowing softly in the wind. Bulletproof chest heaving,
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The Irish myth of the...
or the red man, who lived across the sea in Scotland. The two roared insults and hurled rocks at each other in dramatic shows of strength. Once, Finn tore up a great clump of land and heaved it at his rival,
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Latif Nasser: The...
He said they felt like two baseballs on the sides of his head. Pain just kept accumulating in his life. Next, he watched his wife go into labor at his hospital. She heaved and pushed, clearly in anguish.
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How the stethoscope was...
Laennec, in a moment of vision and dignity, tightly rolls a sheet of paper and places one end to his ear and one end over the young woman's heaving bosom. He is delighted by the clarity of the sound.
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The myth of King Midas...
stone statues shone, and goblets glittered. He galloped through his home in a frenzy, handling each item until it took on a lustrous sheen. Soon the palace heaved with gold,
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Kitra Cahana: My father,...
The body heaves. The mouth moves. We never stagnate. Life triumphs up and down.
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Safari Live - Day 329 PIPE...
and she was senior and then obviously again today which is very very cool so really nice that she was seen like I said not jealous at to his master and everybody gets to see the spotted cats and what I am jealous all I think is that the Mara has been absolutely heaving with animals of late I mean between the sausages and all the Cubs
Video examples
What's below the tip of...
As it floats along, it is battered by waves, melts, and smashes into land and sometimes other icebergs. Some icebergs are so unstable that they have more dramatic ends, heaving up, collapsing, and sometimes even exploding. And as they fall apart,
Video examples
How to Discover Your...
OK, you know that I’m going to show up, and I’ve got a pep in my high heel, red-bottom step. I do have heaving cleavage. And I’ve got a tell-it-like-it-is approach to life that’s always dosed with a ladle of love. It took me 55 years to get here.
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Best of Tiny Animals PIPE...
free nephilim won't be able to reclaim it now even so argirotes must get it away to a place where she can feed on it in safety step by step she heaves it up her theft is complete one of the stars tiny giants is a creature that lives in
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My journey from Marine...
And the drunk man, the janitor man, is huddled in a corner, praying to Saint Anthony 'cause that's the only one he could remember. And there's eyes glowing white, cape blowing softly in the wind. Bulletproof chest heaving,
Video examples
The Irish myth of the...
or the red man, who lived across the sea in Scotland. The two roared insults and hurled rocks at each other in dramatic shows of strength. Once, Finn tore up a great clump of land and heaved it at his rival,
Video examples
Latif Nasser: The...
He said they felt like two baseballs on the sides of his head. Pain just kept accumulating in his life. Next, he watched his wife go into labor at his hospital. She heaved and pushed, clearly in anguish.
Video examples
How the stethoscope was...
Laennec, in a moment of vision and dignity, tightly rolls a sheet of paper and places one end to his ear and one end over the young woman's heaving bosom. He is delighted by the clarity of the sound.
Video examples
The myth of King Midas...
stone statues shone, and goblets glittered. He galloped through his home in a frenzy, handling each item until it took on a lustrous sheen. Soon the palace heaved with gold,
Video examples
Kitra Cahana: My father,...
The body heaves. The mouth moves. We never stagnate. Life triumphs up and down.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
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Ferdinand Marcos
Filipino Statesman
To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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George Grey
New Zealander Leader
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
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Marianne Williamson
American Author
Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.
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John Hersey
American Writer
All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.
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Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
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Alex Morrison
Canadian Soldier
We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.
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Kate Hudson
American Actress
I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.
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Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
American Author
There is no more divisive character in modern politics than Steve Bannon, as he symbolizes the devil incarnate for the heaving, emotional left.
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Josh Allen
American Athlete
Heaving up a blind pass to maybe pick up 10 yards, rather than throwing the ball away - I can't do that.
Quote examples
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.
Quote examples
Ferdinand Marcos
Filipino Statesman
To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
Quote examples
George Grey
New Zealander Leader
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
Quote examples
Marianne Williamson
American Author
Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.
Quote examples
John Hersey
American Writer
All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.
Quote examples
Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Quote examples
Alex Morrison
Canadian Soldier
We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.
Quote examples
Kate Hudson
American Actress
I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.
Quote examples
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
American Author
There is no more divisive character in modern politics than Steve Bannon, as he symbolizes the devil incarnate for the heaving, emotional left.
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Josh Allen
American Athlete
Heaving up a blind pass to maybe pick up 10 yards, rather than throwing the ball away - I can't do that.
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