English
heave
Etymology

From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p-.

Cognate with Western Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen ("to raise", "to lift"), German heben ("to raise", "to lift"), Danish hæve ("to raise", "to lift"), Albanian kap, Old Irish cáin, cacht ("prisoner"), Latin capiō, Latvian kàmpt, Ancient Greek κάπτω, κώπη ("handle")).

Pronunciation Verb

heave (heaves, present participle heaving; simple past and past participle heaved)

  1. (transitive) 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.
    He heaved himself out of the bed.
  2. (transitive) To throw, cast.
    They heaved rocks into the pond.
    The cap'n hove the body overboard.
  3. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
    Her chest heaved with emotion.
  4. (transitive) To utter with effort.
    She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
  5. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
    Heave up the anchor there, boys!
  6. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
  7. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
  8. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
  9. (transitive, archaic) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
    The wind heaved the waves.
  10. (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
    to heave the ship ahead
  11. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
    The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
  12. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
  13. (obsolete, Britain, thieves) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
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heave (plural heaves)

  1. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
    give something a heave
  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. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
  5. An effort to vomit; retching.
  6. (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
  7. (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
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