ALL meanings of heaved
heave
H h - verb with object heaved to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax. 1
- verb with object heaved to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence: to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window. 1
- verb with object heaved Nautical. to move into a certain position or situation: to heave a vessel aback. to move in a certain direction: Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor! 1
- verb with object heaved to utter laboriously or painfully: to heave a sigh. 1
- verb with object heaved to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion: to heave one's chest. 1
- verb with object heaved to vomit; throw up: He heaved his breakfast before noon. 1
- verb with object heaved to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan: Heave the anchor cable! 1
- verb without object heaved to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements: The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea. 1
- verb without object heaved to breathe with effort; pant: He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort. 1
- verb without object heaved to vomit; retch. 1
- verb without object heaved to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge: The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around. 1
- verb without object heaved to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc. 1
- verb without object heaved to push, as on a capstan bar. 1
- verb without object heaved Nautical. to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays. (of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea. 1
- noun heaved an act or effort of heaving. 1
- noun heaved a throw, toss, or cast. 1
- noun heaved Geology. the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike. 1
- noun heaved the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea. 1
- noun heaved heaves, (used with a singular verb). Also called broken wind. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing. 1
- idioms heaved heave ho, (an exclamation used by sailors, as when heaving the anchor up.) 1
- idioms heaved heave in sight, to rise to view, as from below the horizon: The ship hove in sight as dawn began to break. 1
- idioms heaved heave the lead. lead2 (def 16). 1
- verb heaved simple past tense and past participle of heave. 0