Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable)An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.

    We gave one more heave and the wall toppled over at last.

    подня́тиеpodnjátije, поднима́ниеpodnimánije

    throwing something heavy (with great effort)

  2. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

    (geology) a horizontal dislocation

  4. (countable, uncountable)The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.

  5. (countable, uncountable)An effort to vomit; retching.

    the act of lifting something with great effort

  6. (attributive, countable, rare, uncountable)Broken wind in horses.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Tom heaved a sigh of relief.

    deTom seufzte erleichtert auf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. In the sea, waves are heaving.

    ruВздымаются морские волны. — AqQoyriq_1

  3. He heaved a euphoric sigh of relief.

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

    deTom wurde gerade der Laufpass gegeben. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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

    deIm Sommer wird es hier nur so von Touristen wimmeln. — wannieh

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
An effort to raise something, as a weight, or oneself, or to move something heavy:

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

plural: heaves
Singularheave
Pluralheaves

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • throwing something heavy (with great effort):heaving
  • an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting:retch
  • the act of lifting something with great effort:heaving
  • an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling):heaving
  • the act of raising something:liftraise

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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