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heave

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Synonyms: heavy, have, reave, weave, leave, helve, sheave, eave, heate, heare, theave

Antonyms: heavy, have, reave, weave, leave, helve, sheave, eave, heate, heare, theave

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Verb

  1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[lift]] with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
  2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[throw]], [[cast]].
  3. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To rise and fall.
  4. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[utter]] with effort.
  5. {{lb|en|transitive|nautical}} To [[pull]] up with a rope or cable.
  6. {{lb|en|transitive|archaic}} To [[lift]] (generally); to [[raise]], or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
  7. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To be [[throw up|thrown up]] or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
  8. {{lb|en|transitive|mining|geology}} To [[displace]] (a vein, stratum).
  9. {{lb|en|transitive|archaic}} To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
  10. {{lb|en|ambitransitive|nautical}} To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
  11. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[retch]], to make an effort to vomit; to [[vomit]].
  12. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

Noun

  1. {{lb|en|countable}} An effort to raise something, such as a [[weight]] or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
  2. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
  3. A [[horizontal]] [[dislocation]] in a [[metallic]] [[lode]], taking place at an [[intersection]] with another lode.
  4. {{lb|en|nautical}} The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
  5. An effort to [[vomit]]; [[retch]]ing.
  6. {{lb|en|rare|only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse"}} [[broken wind|Broken wind]] in [[horse]]s.
  7. {{lb|en|cricket}} A forceful [[shot]] in which the ball follows a high trajectory

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