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·vt To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.

II. Heave ·vi To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

III. Heave ·vt To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.

IV. Heave ·noun An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

V. Heave ·vi To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

VI. Heave ·vi To make an effort to vomit; to Retch; to Vomit.

VII. Heave ·noun A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

VIII. Heave ·vt To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off;

- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.

IX. Heave ·noun 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, and the like.

X. Heave ·vt To Throw; to Cast;

- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.

XI. Heave ·vt To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to Lift; to Raise; to Hoist;

- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

XII. Heave ·vi To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, ·etc.; to Swell; to Dilate; to Expand; to Distend; hence, to labor; to Struggle.

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v. (P; tr.) ('to throw') they heaved the trash into the pit

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(heaves, heaving, heaved)

If you heave something heavy or difficult to move somewhere, you push, pull, or lift it using a lot of effort.

It took five strong men to heave the statue up a ramp and lower it into place...

VERB: V n prep/adv

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