Crossword-Solution: HEAVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heave | v. t. | 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. |
| Heave | v. t. | To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log. |
| Heave | v. t. | 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. |
| Heave | v. t. | To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh. |
| Heave | v. t. | To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom. |
| Heave | v. i. | To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. |
| Heave | v. i. | 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. |
| Heave | v. i. | To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. |
| Heave | v. i. | To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit. |
| Heave | n. | An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy. |
| Heave | n. | 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. |
| Heave | n. | A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HEAVE | anagram | HAVEE, HEVEA |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
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ARAE
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with HEAVE (5)
Unwept, unwed, unfriended, hence I go, No longer may I see the day’s bright eye; Not one friend left to share my bitter woe, And o’er my ashes heave one passing sigh.
And then the Martian beside us raised his tube on high and discharged it, gunwise, with a heavy report that made the ground heave.
And thus _she_ would see him when she looked out upon the glad morning, and oh! would she drop one little tear upon his poor, lifeless form, would she heave one little sigh to see a bright young life so rudely blighted, so untimely cut down? The window went up, a maid-servant’s discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr’s remains! The strangling hero sprang up with a relieving snort.
One of the men stuck his head out only about a couple of foot from me, and I thought I was gone; but he jerked it in again, and says: “Heave that blame lantern out o’ sight, Bill!” He flung a bag of something into the boat, and then got in himself and set down.
When it seemed impossible, and his chest was about to heave, he thought he heard his wife telling him that he could hold out a little longer.
Quotes with HEAVE (3)
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy... walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only creature they saw was a toad as big as Will's foot, which could only flop in a pain-filled sideways heave as if it were horribly injured. It lay across the path, trying to move out of the way and looking at them as if it knew they meant to hurt it.'It would be merciful to kill it,' said Tialys.'How do you know?' said Lyra. 'It might still like being alive, in spite of everythi…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 243 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).