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Heaving   /hˈivɪŋ/   Listen
Heaving

noun
1.
An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling).  Synonym: heave.
2.
Breathing heavily (as after exertion).  Synonym: panting.
3.
The act of lifting something with great effort.  Synonym: heave.
4.
Throwing something heavy (with great effort).  Synonym: heave.  "He was not good at heaving passes"


Heave

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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"Heaving" Quotes from Famous Books



... bombardment gathers strength, gathers volume, until you'd think something must burst—the world or the universe: either might split from end to end. The dust and smoke are gradually making everything invisible. Crumps come whistling and heaving up great clouds of heavy blackness. We look at our watches. Zero hour in five minutes. The aeroplanes buzzing aloft, and the sausages sitting among the low clouds, inert and so vulnerable-looking. Can there be anything left? ...
— Letters to Helen - Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front • Keith Henderson
... earth—for love is earth's soft lore, Look where ye will—earth overflows with ME; Learn from the waves that ever kiss the shore, And the winds nestling on the heaving sea. ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... that the foundations of civilization are laid wide and deep in charity and welfare. There remains the perpetual task of re-establishing a spiritual order which has been strained and wracked by the heaving of many forces. But when the sanctuaries and altars are restored it will prove to be a new order, richer, more liberal, and more complete than any since men began ...
— The Moral Economy • Ralph Barton Perry
... thought about having a morning cup of coffee, but last night's dregs appeared to have taken up permanent residence in his digestive tract, and he decided against it at last. He swallowed some orange juice and toast and then, heaving a great sigh of resignation and brushing crumbs off his shirt, he teleported himself over to ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... of an earthquake," said Rabba, "and I am sure I felt the ground move. Indeed, it seems to me as if it is heaving up and down, like a ...
— Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends • Gertrude Landa


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