heave

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  1. transitive verb To raise or lift, especially with great effort or force: heaved the box of books onto the table. See Synonyms at lift.
  2. transitive verb To throw (a heavy object) with great effort; hurl: heave the shot; heaved a brick through the window.
  3. transitive verb To throw or toss: heaved his backpack into the corner.
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  • Two global crises have collided, and we have a chance here, now, to solve them both with one mighty heave -- but our leaders are letting this opportunity for greatness leach away. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • With a mighty heave, the bow scraped through some blackberry bushes as we slipped past sideways, caught the current and came safely back into deeper water. —  MailTribune.com Latest Headlines
  • Seeing Schottenheimer as head coach would make me want to dry-heave, but I can at least deal with him as an Offensive Coordinator. —  thejetsblog.com
  • Mike Jones, Chatham Town Manager - "The worst thing you can have happen is a rapid freeze followed by a rapid thaw, that causes the ground to heave which in turn causes the pipes to heave, and with the aging infrastructure its moving real fast." —  Local Headlines - ABC 13
  • Though Vili led from round one with a 19. 69m heave, and backed that up with 19.54, 19.53 and 19. 44m efforts in the remaining rounds, this was not the New Zealander at her very best. —  IAAF.org - News
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

lurch ·  jerk ·  gasp ·  tug ·  jolt ·  shove ·  plunge ·  twist ·  sob ·  leap ·  shake ·  twitch

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heave:   heaves ·  hove ·  heaved ·  heaving
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English heven, from Old English hebban; see kap- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English heven, earlier hebben (preterit hof, hef, hæf, plural hoven, heven, also weak preterit hevede, hefde, past participle hoven, heven, ihoven, also weak past participle heved), from Anglo-Saxon hebban (present hebbe, hæbbe, imperative hef, hefe, preterit hōf, plural hōfen, past participle hafen, hæfen), raise, lift, = Old Saxon hebbian = OFries. heva = Dutch heffen = Middle Low German heven = Old High German heffan, hevan, Middle High German heven, heben, German heben (preterit hob, past participle gehoben) = Icelandic hefja = Swedish häfva = Danish hæve = Gothic (Moesogothic) hafjan (preterit hōf, plural, in comp., hōfum, past participle hafans), raise, lift; a common Teutonic strong verb, √ *haf, with present formative -ja (-ia), the sense ‘lift’ being developed from the orig. sense ‘take, take hold of’ (a sense appearing in the derivs. haft, heft, behoof, q. v., and in the L. cognate), = Latin capere (present indicative capio, perfect cēpi, past participle captus), take, take hold of, seize (later ult. English captive, caitiff, capture, etc., capacious, capable, etc., accept, etc., receive, etc.: see capable, captive, etc.). Derivs. heavy, haft, heft, behoof, and perhaps haven: see these words.
  2. from heave, v.
 

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