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Heaves
/hiːvz/
An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
📖 Definitions of "Heaves"
- 1
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
The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
- 1
To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
"We heaved the chest-of-drawers on to the second-floor landing."
- 2
To throw, cast.
"The cap'n hove the body overboard."
- 3
To rise and fall.
"Her chest heaved with emotion."
- 4
To utter with effort.
"She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window."
- 1
A period of retching.
"I have the dry heaves, I rather just throw up and get it over with."
- 2
A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing; broken wind.
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