Meaning

13 senses
  1. (transitive)To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

    We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing.

    He hove himself out of the bed.

  2. (transitive)To throw, cast.

    They hove rocks into the pond.

    The cap'n hove the body overboard.

    werfen, wuchten, schleudern

    throw with great effort

  3. (intransitive)To rise and fall.

    Her chest heaved with emotion.

    здійматисяzdijmatysja

    rise and move, as in waves or billows

  4. (transitive)To utter with effort.

    She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.

    utter a sound, as with obvious effort

  5. (transitive)To pull up with a rope or cable.

    Heave up the anchor there, boys!

  6. (intransitive)To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

    17 June, 1857, Edward Everett, The Statue of Warren the heaving sods of Bunker Hill

  7. (transitive)To displace (a vein, stratum).

  8. (ambitransitive)To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.

    to heave the ship ahead

    move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position

  9. (intransitive)To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.

    The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.

    make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

  10. (intransitive)To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

  11. (archaic, transitive)To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.

    heben, hieven

    підійматиpidijmaty, підніматиpidnimaty

  12. (archaic, transitive)To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.

    The wind heaved the waves.

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Tom heaved a sigh of relief.

    deTom seufzte erleichtert auf.

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  2. In the sea, waves are heaving.

    ruВздымаются морские волны.

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  3. He heaved a euphoric sigh of relief.

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  4. Tom has just been given the heave-ho.

    deTom wurde gerade der Laufpass gegeben.

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  5. This place will be heaving with tourists in summer.

    deIm Sommer wird es hier nur so von Touristen wimmeln.

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Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
to rise and fall:
to lift:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to throw:
to lift:

Origin

From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habb

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.

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Forms

heaves, heaving, heaved, heaved
Base formheave · to heave
3rd person singularheaves
Present participleheaving
Past simpleheaved / hove
Past participleheaved / hove / hoven / heft

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyheave
he, she, itheaves

Past simpleLesson

all personsheaved

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave heaved
he, she, ithas heaved

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill heave

Synonyms

171 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

See also

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