heave
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti, from the root *kap-. See also have.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen ("to raise", "to lift"), German heben ("to raise", "to lift"), Danish hæve ("to raise", "to lift"), Albanian kap (“to grasp, seize”), Old Irish cáin (“law, tribute”), cacht (“prisoner”), Latin capiō (“to take”), Latvian kàmpt (“to seize”), Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”), κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”)).
(To lift, to raise): Compare typologically Russian поднима́ть (podnimátʹ), подня́ть (podnjátʹ) (akin to има́ть (imátʹ), име́ть (imétʹ) < Proto-Slavic *jьmati, *jьměti).
Inflected forms:
form: heaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: heaved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hove
pos: verb
tags: error-unknown-tag
past
form: heaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hove
pos: verb
tags: error-unknown-tag
participle
past
form: hoven
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heft
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing.
He hove himself out of the bed.
gloss: To throw, cast.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They hove rocks into the pond.
The cap'n hove the body overboard.
gloss: To rise and fall.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Her chest heaved with emotion.
Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
the heaving plain of ocean
Presently the moon went down, and left us floating on the waters, now only heaving like some troubled woman's breast, with leisure to reflect upon all that we had gone through and all that we had escaped.
gloss: To utter with effort.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
gloss: To pull up with a rope or cable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Heave up the anchor there, boys!
gloss: To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand; […]
gloss: To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The grovving Tovv'rs like Exhalations riſe, / And the huge Columns heave into the Skies.
where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap
17 June, 1857, Edward Everett, The Statue of Warren
the heaving sods of Bunker Hill
gloss: To displace (a vein, stratum).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: The wind heaved the waves.
gloss: To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to heave the ship ahead
Pausing there I waited until the foremost Sagoth hove into sight.
gloss: To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
gloss: To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She [The Church of England] had ſtruggl'd and heav'd at a Reformation; ever ſince Wicliffs dayes, for about a 150 years together: […]
gloss: To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
examples: Ben mort (good vvench) ſhal you and I heaue a booth, mill a ken, or nip a bung? ſhall you and I rob a houſe, or cut a purſe?
gloss: An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We gave one more heave and the wall toppled over at last.
July made no reply but that of a sigh. For she was thinking of the heave she must make to see herself lifted from the ground.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: and now the bed shook, the curtains rattled so, that I could scarce hear the sighs and murmurs, the heaves and pantings that accompanied the action, from the beginning to the end
The slab and piles will work together to resist 'ground heave' (the upward movement of the ground as it tries to push up into the box).
gloss: A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An effort to vomit; retching.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Broken wind in horses.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
rare
uncountable
examples: The dust would have to be watched out for with a heave horse, and most alfalfa hay...
The late stage is recognized by horse people as the true "heave" horse and at this stage most of the airways are partially or completely obstructed.
The bay horse was straining at the time the picture was taken, making its heave line more noticeable.
gloss: A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune.
Related words: heavy
heft
Derived words: dry-heave
heave-ho
heave in sight
heave into sight
heave into view
heave in view
heaveless
heaver
heave-shoulder
heave the log
heave to
overheave
two, six, heave
upheaval
upheave
frost heave
heave offering
pyritic heave
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