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Heaves   /hivz/   Listen
Heaves

noun
1.
A chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks.  Synonym: broken wind.


Heave

noun
1.
An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).  Synonym: heaving.
2.
(geology) a horizontal dislocation.
3.
The act of lifting something with great effort.  Synonym: heaving.
4.
An involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting.  Synonym: retch.
5.
The act of raising something.  Synonyms: lift, raise.  "Fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
6.
Throwing something heavy (with great effort).  Synonym: heaving.  "He was not good at heaving passes"
verb
(past heaved or hove; past part. heaved or hove, formerly hoven; pres. part. heaving)
1.
Utter a sound, as with obvious effort.
2.
Throw with great effort.
3.
Rise and move, as in waves or billows.  Synonyms: billow, surge.
4.
Lift or elevate.  Synonyms: heave up, heft, heft up.
5.
Move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position.
6.
Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted.  Synonyms: gasp, pant, puff.
7.
Bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat.  Synonyms: buckle, warp.
8.
Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit.  Synonyms: gag, retch.



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"Heaves" Quotes from Famous Books



... everyone who has to work in order that he may eat; there is little time or spirit for song. In the late forenoon and again in the middle of the afternoon the rattle of bills may be heard on the branches; at other times the woods are almost silent, save for the cracking of the earth as it heaves under the frost, and the boom of the ever thickening ice on ...
— Some Winter Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell
... curious crescendo of color and of light which, in Egypt, succeeds the diminuendo of color and of light that is the prelude to the pause before the afterglow. Everything seemed to be in subtle movement, heaving as a breast heaves with the breath; swelling slightly, as if in an effort to be more, to attract attention, to gain in significance. Pale things became livid, holding apparently some under-brightness which partly penetrated its envelope, but a brightness that was white and almost frightful. Black things ...
— The Spell of Egypt • Robert Hichens
... God of Day Impartial, quickening with his ray Evil and good alike, beheld The carcass—and the carcass swelled. Big with new birth the belly heaves Beneath its screen of scented leaves. Past any doubt, ...
— Songs from Books • Rudyard Kipling
... faith wherewith he could renew The steadfast hills and seas dry up to naught He prayed the Lord upon his flock to rue, To ope the springs of grace and ease this drought, Out of his looks shone zeal, devotion, faith, His hands and eyes to heaven he heaves, and saith: ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... that was an iron fire escape runnin' along the whole court side on our floor. I'd picked that window out as bein' a good place to scout from. And I couldn't have been better placed; for I saw just who I was expectin' the minute he heaves in sight. I'd like to have had one glimpse, though, of Old Hickory and the Doc and Piddie while they was watchin' and listenin' and holdin' their breath inside there. But I'm near enough when the time comes, to hear that chorus of gasps that's ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford


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