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Definition of heave in English:

heave

verbhove, heaved hiːvhiv
  • 1with object and adverbial of direction Lift or haul (something heavy) with great effort.

    用力举起(或拉、拖)

    she heaved the sofa back into place

    她把沙发拖回了原来的位置。

    he heaved himself out of bed

    他用力从床上爬起来。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After some minutes, he heaved himself to his feet to the evident relief of the crowd who had mistakenly cheered, but it proved premature.
    • With an empty arm, he rolled Razi onto her back, and heaved her upper half onto his knee.
    • Across her back I threw a soft light blanket before heaving the massive English saddle across.
    • They heaved themselves up, their muscles feeling like lead.
    • I heaved myself up and hauled my bag back onto my shoulders.
    • Finally giving in to his conscious, he reluctantly heaved himself off the comfy sofa and approached the door with great caution.
    • Kim heaved herself up on the lab table and sat on it.
    • By the time I heaved myself into action, lifting Harry carefully and putting him down on my nicely warmed chair the fireworks had finished and the night was quiet once more.
    • I slowly heaved myself off the couch and into a standing position, stumbled over to the door, and opened it just as he dropped a package at the door and rang the bell.
    • He grabbed her bag and tossed it to her, running to the window and heaving it open.
    • He heaved the gates open with Julius and Sam, and threw his spear at an emerging Saxon who had been awoken by the whistle.
    • Bastian heaved himself to a sitting position with much effort.
    • She heaved herself out of the rocking chair and plucked the binoculars from the table.
    • So I took my time finishing the job, heaved myself upright and turned to face the source of the muttering.
    • Rae took a deep breath as she heaved a concrete brick up on to another one.
    • He slowly heaved himself of the soft wet grass, dusted himself and prepared to face the world that lay ahead, the living world…
    • I heaved myself and the table up the last flight of stairs.
    • I gripped the next rock on the wall and heaved myself up.
    • Jag gasped as his shoulder was nearly dislocated, then heaved himself up with the offended arm.
    • To her relief, he heaved her up by her waist and threw her over his shoulder again.
    Synonyms
    haul, pull, lug, manhandle, drag, draw, tug
    lift, raise, hoist, heft
    informal hump, yank
    rare upheave
    1. 1.1Nautical Pull, raise, or move (a boat or ship) by hauling on a rope or ropes.
      〔航海〕用绳将(船)拉动(或往高处拖动)
      Martin thought he might be able to heave the lifeboat in closer
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He hired hundreds of labourers to heave a large boat, a passenger ferry, over a mountain in the Andes.
      • The Danes used to work holding the boat with an anchor and heaving the ropes to the boat.
      • Where there was no obvious launch point George - adrenaline-charged - would heave the boat over walls or railings and clamber in.
      • Finally I jump ashore and heave my boat out and carry it over the levee.
    2. 1.2informal Throw (something heavy)
      〈非正式〉扔,甩,抛(重物)
      she heaved half a brick at him

      她朝他扔过去半块砖。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • She heaved the feather light envelope across the room, tossing the box with it.
      • James grabbed the back of Savage's shirt and heaved him away from the guns, tossing him into the middle of the room.
      • Every day in every way there's enough to make one throw the newspaper across the room, heave a brick at the television set.
      • Hot coffee revived her slightly and she heaved the new suitcase on to the pale bed-cover and flung back the lid.
      • If you want to reach the disaffected youths who take to the streets to heave bricks at the police, you need to have a dialogue.
      • He grabs the boy by the collar of his shirt and heaves him across the room, sending him sliding into a table.
      • For some unknown reason I ended up heaving a cast iron bathtub through a house in Burslem on Saturday.
      • Barry then heaved the ball at Haywood, and Haywood throw a punch at Barry.
      • Dom and Dara exchanged a worried glance before pitching in; heaving rocks left and right.
      • She gave half a shrug, and heaved her friend's ‘inadequate’ duffel bag out of the car.
      • A young hoodlum heaves a brick through the window of a baker's shop.
      • What is the specific legislation under which, if, a 15-year old boy heaves a brick in somebody's window and he has done it many times before, he might end up in detention?
      • So he heaved a brick though the glass and grabbed it.
      Synonyms
      throw, fling, cast, toss, hurl, lob, pitch, send, dash, let fly
      informal bung, chuck, sling
      North American informal peg
      Australian informal hoy
      New Zealand informal bish
  • 2with object Produce (a sigh)

    发出(叹息)

    he heaved a euphoric sigh of relief

    他欣慰地舒了口气。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We all heave a semi-contented sigh and say to ourselves: ‘At least he isn't playing.’
    • The other friend heaved a sigh and said he was totally dependent on his son who didn't give him any money.
    • She continued to improve and her family heaved a sigh of relief and started limping back towards normalcy.
    • Breathing hard, Jacob simply stared for a few more seconds before I heaved a harsh sigh and tugged off my headphones.
    • If you could cup your ear you could hear Republicans all over the country heaving a sigh of relief.
    • Environmentalists may fume, but commuters and residents sick of the constant traffic jams are heaving a sigh of relief at the sight of builders starting work on the new dual-carriageway.
    • John knelt and checked for a pulse, he heaved a sigh of relief when he found one, Jim wouldn't die just yet.
    • The second man heaved a sigh that was mocking in its false regret.
    • They are consuming the dish by dollops and heaving sighs of contentment.
    • If you were here now you'd hear me heaving a big sigh.
    • But instead of putting our feet up and heaving a sigh of relief, many of us are just beginning to realise how much we've actually spent.
    • The owners of the 150 properties engulfed by flood waters 15 months ago were not the only people heaving a sigh of relief.
    • For those who heave a sigh of relief a second shock is only a couple of hours away.
    • One suspects the government will now, after heaving a sigh of relief, quietly hand the issue over to doctors for them to sort out.
    • Her body lurched, so thin the lightest touch would break her in half, heaving gasps of terror.
    • You can almost hear the First Minister heaving a sigh of relief.
    • Labour election strategists, heaving a sigh of relief that the fuel protest seems to have been defused, are now worrying about the apathy factor in the forthcoming British election.
    • Motorists will be heaving a sigh of relief with the announcement the by-pass is due to open before Christmas.
    • Then he kissed it lightly and heaved a deep sigh again.
    • Qantas executives will be heaving a sigh of relief tonight.
    Synonyms
    let out, breathe, give, sigh, gasp, emit, utter
  • 3no object Rise and fall rhythmically or spasmodically.

    起伏

    his shoulders heaved as he panted

    他肩膀一起一伏地喘着气。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The woman fell back, chest heaving, lips moving soundlessly.
    • My chest heaved, I was panting, and my hair had become stringy and was sticking to my sweaty neck and face.
    • Darcy burst round the corner, his chest heaving heavily as he panted.
    • ‘Yes that's what I want’ I slammed the door in his face and leaned against it my shoulders heaving, it felt as though I had just run a mile.
    • Her tears for me were more than I could bear, and I started to sob silently, my chest heaving, my shoulders shaking.
    • His shoulders were heaving with sobs as I knelt beside him.
    • She covered her face with her hands, her shoulders heaving.
    • His chest heaved and he threw back his head, his muscles vibrating from the uncontrollable happiness of a laugh.
    • As our shoulders burn and lungs heave with exertion, we slowly get the kayak under control and find the rhythm and intensity required to keep it going in the desired direction.
    • Finally he calmed down, his chest heaving as he panted, his heart still pounding in his chest.
    • He laid panting and heaving for breath until he finally fell asleep.
    • Her chest heaved gently to the rhythm of her breathing, but as he crept in further, he had to stifle a scream.
    • Already her chest and shoulders heaved from holding in sobs.
    • He has his face in his hands, his shoulders heaving.
    • Her head bowed low, hair falling over her face, and her shoulders heaved.
    • He put his arms around my shoulders and I leaned on shoulders, my body heaving with sobs.
    • She lay there, panting and heaving, feeling her blood drain away from her body and out through her torn clothes.
    • He can see her shoulders slightly heaving up and down.
    • I wrapped my arms around him and he buried his face into my shoulder like he had earlier that evening, shoulders heaving as he wrapped his arms around my waist.
    • Perhaps because of this, I felt acutely conscious of the way my shoulders were heaving, a rapid and seemingly exaggerated flapping motion.
    Synonyms
    rise and fall, roll, swell, surge, churn, boil, seethe, swirl, billow
    1. 3.1 Make an effort to vomit; retch.
      呕吐,恶心
      my stomach heaved

      我觉得反胃。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her stomach heaved and her hands were damp and clammy.
      • My stomach heaved and I covered my mouth as I tried to regain control of my senses.
      • But even I could make it no farther than the sixth house before my legs gave from under me and I collapsed on the ground, my stomach heaving.
      • My legs took me away from him and I dry heaved until I fell into a fit of tears.
      • Her stomach heaved and she ran to the bathroom next to Samuel's room.
      • My stomach heaved and I ran to the toilet, retching and crying.
      • This time, however, her stomach heaved and she just barely grabbed the chamber pot before she was sick.
      • I felt my stomach churn painfully, heaving viciously before I had time to react.
      • Her stomach heaved, and she wrapped her arms around her middle as if to contain it.
      • My stomach almost heaved at the last ‘fond’ memory of my last movie with the two of them.
      • Will lay flat on his back, stomach heaving, sweat pooling in sandy little lumps on the cave floor.
      • She was forced to close her eyes again as her stomach heaved.
      • Tom felt deadly full, his stomach still heaving like a stormy sea.
      • I stood on their front lawn, my stomach heaving, trying to get my breath back.
      • Her stomach clenched suddenly, heaving, and she had her answer.
      • He spent the next few minutes bent in half, but even after his stomach was completely empty he continued to retch and heave but bring nothing up.
      • Bile rose in his throat and he began to heave uncontrollably.
      • As soon as her stomach stopped heaving she fled back into the kitchen, away from the sight and smell of the dead kitten, and wiped her mouth down.
      Synonyms
      vomit, retch, gag, bring up, cough up
      British be sick
      North American get sick
      informal throw up, puke, chunder, chuck up, hurl, spew, do the technicolor yawn, keck
      British informal honk, sick up
      Scottish informal boke
      North American informal spit up, barf, upchuck, toss one's cookies, blow chunks
noun hiːvhiv
  • 1An act of heaving.

    with that last heave, Maurice's anchor wrenched clear of the mud
    Example sentencesExamples
    • With a final heave, my boots skidded across the floor, leaving dark smudges in their wake.
    • The view from the summit, however, is assuredly worth all of the leg cramps and dry heaves.
    • The vomiting soon turned into dry heaves, then coughs finally transforming into heart wrenching, soul shaking sobs.
    • Maybe he could really flip himself over with an almighty heave?
    • He managed to give her a final heave and pull her through just as the door shut and gravity returned to normal.
    • It is characterised with gentle hand movements, a distinctive heave of the torso and soft walk.
    • With a jerk and a heave, the train stopped, sending Rebecca tumbling, laughing, on top of her husband.
    • He headed the hammer with a heave of 47. 55m, and dominated the shot with 13. 31m.
    • With a great heave of breath, Elizabeth slid across the wall to the stairs, never taking her eyes off of the closed door.
    • I was struck - flabbergasted, really - by the velocity of the heaves.
    • They guarded their opponents courteously, looked for unchallenged spaces to catch the ball, and settled for long-range heaves.
    • He shifts his weight as fast as possible and gives his opponent a great heave.
    • They hay strewn floor gave a heave as the other stables started awake.
    • David gave a tremendous heave and Rose caught the end of the line.
    • Before I go on, please take a minute to finish your dry heaves of disgust as you purge that image from your minds.
    • I gave the stick a mighty heave and it swung out in a beautiful, soaring arc.
    • I tossed the remaining ball into the metal container and slammed the lid down with a heave, and then turned and walked across the court to where my father was standing.
    • The Guardian roared once more and, with a heave, he pushed his body sideways and forced the knife into the ground.
    • Zane was struggling, his breaths coming in short heaves and his face turning red.
    • So gathering all the strength he had he gave a mighty heave and broke the chain about his neck.
    Synonyms
    yank, tug, pull, wrench, snatch, heave, drag, tweak, twitch
  • 2Geology
    A sideways displacement in a fault.

    〔地质〕平错,隆起

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is some control on the footwall and hanging-wall geometry associated with the Bristol Channel Thrust but no decisive seismic control on the amount of heave across it.
    • Entrance is signalled by a change of material, where the whole of the lower storey seems to shift to the right as if following some sort of geological heave.
    • In most, if not all, cases it is clear that volumetric contraction has occurred with horizontal contraction of the sediments complementing the heave of the faults.
    • Many of these faults are characterized by heaves ranging from several to tens of kilometres.
  • 3heaves

    another term for COPD in horses

Phrases

  • heave in sight (or into view)

    • Come into view.

      〔主航海〕进入视野,出现

      they held out until a British fleet hove in sight

      他们一直坚持到一支英国舰队进入视野。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Somebody was keeping count, and great cheers went up every time our heroine hove into view.
      • Then a span of rock hove into view, barring the passage.
      • He gasped as a fully armed hovertank hove into view.
      • Once he hove into view at our table, the lights went out and I had to order in the dark.
      • It is said, too, that sailors, beating up against the wind in the Gulf of Finland, sometimes see a strange sail heave in sight astern and overhaul them hand over hand.
      • So far the neighbours have not actually complained but they have been seen to dive for cover when the verbose trio hove into view.
      • I order from the meat trolley, a big stainless steel affair in which various meats are submerged in hot water and juices and heaved into view when a lever is pulled.
      • Fortunately for us, an offshore sailing dinghy race hove into view, half a dozen racing dinghies screaming downwind.
      • Today's revelations of the American meetings, the anger of Boyce and the faltering Labour lead in the polls will ensure that those around Blair continue to bite their nails as the last 96 hours of the campaign hove into view.
      • After several minutes, he heard the watchman approach, mumbling a song under his breath, then hove into view, his lantern preceding him.
      • Sure enough, several miles later a small isolated mound hove into view with a scrubby acacia tree perched on top.
      • An idyllic spot of woodland might hove into view, but tantalisingly only as a remote island in an ocean of ploughed fields.
      • Thus began an uneasy night of watching our possessions like hawks and suspiciously eyeing up anyone who hove into view - this excluded the waiting staff who seemed to be doing their best to avoid us and/or forget our orders.
      • Later, as the 200-page mark heaves into view, it's ‘Write and enjoy!’
      • But it doesn't alter the fact that the display moves up several gears and explodes into a great and sensuous ripeness when the art of the Ottomans finally heaves into view.
      • Soon the shining titanium flanks of the museum hove into view.
      • Familiar faces hove into view and the barman greets me by name even though I've not been here for eight months.
      • The chamber pot was shrouded in fog when I began to look for it, and then, as the wind blew stronger, it hove into view.
      • On 18 May 1565 130 galleys and 50 transports carrying 30,000 troops hove in sight of what is now Valetta.
      • As his arrival date hove into view, I assembled a labour soundtrack.

Phrasal Verbs

  • heave to

    • (of a boat or ship) come to a stop, especially by turning across the wind leaving the headsail backed.

      〔主航海〕(船)顶风停航,(船)停航

      he hove to and dropped anchor
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Seeking water, Alexander heaved to and sent out a boat.
      • As they approached the coast of Western Australia the wind blew too heavily for the ship to make landfall and they had to heave to with close reefed topsails.
      • The boat heaves to under power and waits, the skipper aware of the half-mile visibility in haze.
      • ‘You will also practise being captain of your own ship, repairing the engine and heaving to in a storm,’ she said.
      • The ship was hove to and the men in charge of patching were swung over in rope slings.

Derivatives

  • heaver

  • noun ˈhiːvəˈhivər
    • The garbage being heaved out the car windows to the roadside says a lot about the heavers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Back in Philadelphia, by 1836, a general strike led by Irish coal heavers succeeded in securing a working day lasting from 6am until 6pm, with two hours allowed for meals.

Origin

Old English hebban, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heffen and German heben 'lift up'.

  • hefty from mid 19th century:

    This was originally a US dialect word formed from late Middle English heft ‘the weight of someone’, which came from Old English heave, also the source of Old English heavy. Heave-ho (Late Middle English) was originally a nautical expression, used when hauling a rope.

Rhymes

achieve, believe, breve, cleave, conceive, deceive, eve, greave, grieve, interleave, interweave, khedive, leave, misconceive, naive, Neve, peeve, perceive, reave, receive, reive, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, sheave, sleeve, steeve, Steve, Tananarive, Tel Aviv, thieve, underachieve, upheave, weave, we've, Yves

Definition of heave in US English:

heave

verbhēvhiv
  • 1with object and adverbial of direction Lift or haul (a heavy thing) with great effort.

    用力举起(或拉、拖)

    she heaved the sofa back into place

    她把沙发拖回了原来的位置。

    he heaved himself out of bed

    他用力从床上爬起来。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I heaved myself and the table up the last flight of stairs.
    • I gripped the next rock on the wall and heaved myself up.
    • They heaved themselves up, their muscles feeling like lead.
    • Jag gasped as his shoulder was nearly dislocated, then heaved himself up with the offended arm.
    • Across her back I threw a soft light blanket before heaving the massive English saddle across.
    • So I took my time finishing the job, heaved myself upright and turned to face the source of the muttering.
    • I heaved myself up and hauled my bag back onto my shoulders.
    • After some minutes, he heaved himself to his feet to the evident relief of the crowd who had mistakenly cheered, but it proved premature.
    • He heaved the gates open with Julius and Sam, and threw his spear at an emerging Saxon who had been awoken by the whistle.
    • He grabbed her bag and tossed it to her, running to the window and heaving it open.
    • By the time I heaved myself into action, lifting Harry carefully and putting him down on my nicely warmed chair the fireworks had finished and the night was quiet once more.
    • To her relief, he heaved her up by her waist and threw her over his shoulder again.
    • Rae took a deep breath as she heaved a concrete brick up on to another one.
    • I slowly heaved myself off the couch and into a standing position, stumbled over to the door, and opened it just as he dropped a package at the door and rang the bell.
    • With an empty arm, he rolled Razi onto her back, and heaved her upper half onto his knee.
    • She heaved herself out of the rocking chair and plucked the binoculars from the table.
    • Kim heaved herself up on the lab table and sat on it.
    • He slowly heaved himself of the soft wet grass, dusted himself and prepared to face the world that lay ahead, the living world…
    • Bastian heaved himself to a sitting position with much effort.
    • Finally giving in to his conscious, he reluctantly heaved himself off the comfy sofa and approached the door with great caution.
    Synonyms
    haul, pull, lug, manhandle, drag, draw, tug
    1. 1.1Nautical Pull, raise, or move (a boat or ship) by hauling on a rope or ropes.
      〔航海〕用绳将(船)拉动(或往高处拖动)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He hired hundreds of labourers to heave a large boat, a passenger ferry, over a mountain in the Andes.
      • Where there was no obvious launch point George - adrenaline-charged - would heave the boat over walls or railings and clamber in.
      • Finally I jump ashore and heave my boat out and carry it over the levee.
      • The Danes used to work holding the boat with an anchor and heaving the ropes to the boat.
    2. 1.2informal Throw (something heavy)
      〈非正式〉扔,甩,抛(重物)
      she heaved half a brick at him

      她朝他扔过去半块砖。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • James grabbed the back of Savage's shirt and heaved him away from the guns, tossing him into the middle of the room.
      • She gave half a shrug, and heaved her friend's ‘inadequate’ duffel bag out of the car.
      • Barry then heaved the ball at Haywood, and Haywood throw a punch at Barry.
      • Dom and Dara exchanged a worried glance before pitching in; heaving rocks left and right.
      • For some unknown reason I ended up heaving a cast iron bathtub through a house in Burslem on Saturday.
      • She heaved the feather light envelope across the room, tossing the box with it.
      • So he heaved a brick though the glass and grabbed it.
      • What is the specific legislation under which, if, a 15-year old boy heaves a brick in somebody's window and he has done it many times before, he might end up in detention?
      • He grabs the boy by the collar of his shirt and heaves him across the room, sending him sliding into a table.
      • Hot coffee revived her slightly and she heaved the new suitcase on to the pale bed-cover and flung back the lid.
      • Every day in every way there's enough to make one throw the newspaper across the room, heave a brick at the television set.
      • If you want to reach the disaffected youths who take to the streets to heave bricks at the police, you need to have a dialogue.
      • A young hoodlum heaves a brick through the window of a baker's shop.
      Synonyms
      throw, fling, cast, toss, hurl, lob, pitch, send, dash, let fly
  • 2with object Produce (a sigh)

    发出(叹息)

    he heaved a euphoric sigh of relief

    他欣慰地舒了口气。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She continued to improve and her family heaved a sigh of relief and started limping back towards normalcy.
    • They are consuming the dish by dollops and heaving sighs of contentment.
    • The owners of the 150 properties engulfed by flood waters 15 months ago were not the only people heaving a sigh of relief.
    • Environmentalists may fume, but commuters and residents sick of the constant traffic jams are heaving a sigh of relief at the sight of builders starting work on the new dual-carriageway.
    • But instead of putting our feet up and heaving a sigh of relief, many of us are just beginning to realise how much we've actually spent.
    • One suspects the government will now, after heaving a sigh of relief, quietly hand the issue over to doctors for them to sort out.
    • Then he kissed it lightly and heaved a deep sigh again.
    • The other friend heaved a sigh and said he was totally dependent on his son who didn't give him any money.
    • For those who heave a sigh of relief a second shock is only a couple of hours away.
    • Breathing hard, Jacob simply stared for a few more seconds before I heaved a harsh sigh and tugged off my headphones.
    • Labour election strategists, heaving a sigh of relief that the fuel protest seems to have been defused, are now worrying about the apathy factor in the forthcoming British election.
    • If you could cup your ear you could hear Republicans all over the country heaving a sigh of relief.
    • The second man heaved a sigh that was mocking in its false regret.
    • You can almost hear the First Minister heaving a sigh of relief.
    • We all heave a semi-contented sigh and say to ourselves: ‘At least he isn't playing.’
    • If you were here now you'd hear me heaving a big sigh.
    • Her body lurched, so thin the lightest touch would break her in half, heaving gasps of terror.
    • John knelt and checked for a pulse, he heaved a sigh of relief when he found one, Jim wouldn't die just yet.
    • Qantas executives will be heaving a sigh of relief tonight.
    • Motorists will be heaving a sigh of relief with the announcement the by-pass is due to open before Christmas.
    Synonyms
    let out, breathe, give, sigh, gasp, emit, utter
  • 3no object Rise and fall rhythmically or spasmodically.

    起伏

    his shoulders heaved as he panted

    他肩膀一起一伏地喘着气。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I wrapped my arms around him and he buried his face into my shoulder like he had earlier that evening, shoulders heaving as he wrapped his arms around my waist.
    • He has his face in his hands, his shoulders heaving.
    • ‘Yes that's what I want’ I slammed the door in his face and leaned against it my shoulders heaving, it felt as though I had just run a mile.
    • He laid panting and heaving for breath until he finally fell asleep.
    • Her tears for me were more than I could bear, and I started to sob silently, my chest heaving, my shoulders shaking.
    • My chest heaved, I was panting, and my hair had become stringy and was sticking to my sweaty neck and face.
    • His chest heaved and he threw back his head, his muscles vibrating from the uncontrollable happiness of a laugh.
    • Finally he calmed down, his chest heaving as he panted, his heart still pounding in his chest.
    • She covered her face with her hands, her shoulders heaving.
    • She lay there, panting and heaving, feeling her blood drain away from her body and out through her torn clothes.
    • Perhaps because of this, I felt acutely conscious of the way my shoulders were heaving, a rapid and seemingly exaggerated flapping motion.
    • His shoulders were heaving with sobs as I knelt beside him.
    • Darcy burst round the corner, his chest heaving heavily as he panted.
    • The woman fell back, chest heaving, lips moving soundlessly.
    • Already her chest and shoulders heaved from holding in sobs.
    • Her head bowed low, hair falling over her face, and her shoulders heaved.
    • He put his arms around my shoulders and I leaned on shoulders, my body heaving with sobs.
    • Her chest heaved gently to the rhythm of her breathing, but as he crept in further, he had to stifle a scream.
    • As our shoulders burn and lungs heave with exertion, we slowly get the kayak under control and find the rhythm and intensity required to keep it going in the desired direction.
    • He can see her shoulders slightly heaving up and down.
    Synonyms
    rise and fall, roll, swell, surge, churn, boil, seethe, swirl, billow
    1. 3.1 Make an effort to vomit; retch.
      呕吐,恶心
      my stomach heaved

      我觉得反胃。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • My stomach heaved and I covered my mouth as I tried to regain control of my senses.
      • My stomach almost heaved at the last ‘fond’ memory of my last movie with the two of them.
      • He spent the next few minutes bent in half, but even after his stomach was completely empty he continued to retch and heave but bring nothing up.
      • Her stomach heaved and her hands were damp and clammy.
      • She was forced to close her eyes again as her stomach heaved.
      • Tom felt deadly full, his stomach still heaving like a stormy sea.
      • Her stomach heaved, and she wrapped her arms around her middle as if to contain it.
      • My stomach heaved and I ran to the toilet, retching and crying.
      • Her stomach clenched suddenly, heaving, and she had her answer.
      • Bile rose in his throat and he began to heave uncontrollably.
      • This time, however, her stomach heaved and she just barely grabbed the chamber pot before she was sick.
      • Will lay flat on his back, stomach heaving, sweat pooling in sandy little lumps on the cave floor.
      • As soon as her stomach stopped heaving she fled back into the kitchen, away from the sight and smell of the dead kitten, and wiped her mouth down.
      • I stood on their front lawn, my stomach heaving, trying to get my breath back.
      • But even I could make it no farther than the sixth house before my legs gave from under me and I collapsed on the ground, my stomach heaving.
      • My legs took me away from him and I dry heaved until I fell into a fit of tears.
      • Her stomach heaved and she ran to the bathroom next to Samuel's room.
      • I felt my stomach churn painfully, heaving viciously before I had time to react.
      Synonyms
      vomit, retch, gag, bring up, cough up
nounhēvhiv
  • 1An act of heaving, especially a strong pull.

    拖拽

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With a great heave of breath, Elizabeth slid across the wall to the stairs, never taking her eyes off of the closed door.
    • He headed the hammer with a heave of 47. 55m, and dominated the shot with 13. 31m.
    • They hay strewn floor gave a heave as the other stables started awake.
    • The view from the summit, however, is assuredly worth all of the leg cramps and dry heaves.
    • He shifts his weight as fast as possible and gives his opponent a great heave.
    • Maybe he could really flip himself over with an almighty heave?
    • David gave a tremendous heave and Rose caught the end of the line.
    • I tossed the remaining ball into the metal container and slammed the lid down with a heave, and then turned and walked across the court to where my father was standing.
    • With a final heave, my boots skidded across the floor, leaving dark smudges in their wake.
    • The vomiting soon turned into dry heaves, then coughs finally transforming into heart wrenching, soul shaking sobs.
    • So gathering all the strength he had he gave a mighty heave and broke the chain about his neck.
    • I was struck - flabbergasted, really - by the velocity of the heaves.
    • They guarded their opponents courteously, looked for unchallenged spaces to catch the ball, and settled for long-range heaves.
    • Zane was struggling, his breaths coming in short heaves and his face turning red.
    • The Guardian roared once more and, with a heave, he pushed his body sideways and forced the knife into the ground.
    • It is characterised with gentle hand movements, a distinctive heave of the torso and soft walk.
    • He managed to give her a final heave and pull her through just as the door shut and gravity returned to normal.
    • I gave the stick a mighty heave and it swung out in a beautiful, soaring arc.
    • Before I go on, please take a minute to finish your dry heaves of disgust as you purge that image from your minds.
    • With a jerk and a heave, the train stopped, sending Rebecca tumbling, laughing, on top of her husband.
    Synonyms
    yank, tug, pull, wrench, snatch, heave, drag, tweak, twitch
  • 2Geology
    A sideways displacement in a fault.

    〔地质〕平错,隆起

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is some control on the footwall and hanging-wall geometry associated with the Bristol Channel Thrust but no decisive seismic control on the amount of heave across it.
    • Many of these faults are characterized by heaves ranging from several to tens of kilometres.
    • In most, if not all, cases it is clear that volumetric contraction has occurred with horizontal contraction of the sediments complementing the heave of the faults.
    • Entrance is signalled by a change of material, where the whole of the lower storey seems to shift to the right as if following some sort of geological heave.
  • 3the heavesinformal A case of retching or vomiting.

    waiting for the heaves to subside
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Elevation will come after the dry heaves are gone.
    • There are no sudden jerks that will give those prone to motion sickness the heaves.
    • ‘It was heartbreaking to hear,’ Vingerling says, mimicking Shirley's dry heaves.
    • After several minuets of dry heaves, he finally sank to the tiles again.
    • Luckily, most of it had been digested, so not much comes up; instead I'm stuck with the dry heaves as my body continues to convulse against my will.
    • Bobby sat still for a moment, sickened by hot waves of indignity rising like dry heaves from the pit of his stomach.
    • She realized there was nothing in her stomach to be offered up, and fought back a second round of dry heaves.
  • 4heavesA disease of horses, with labored breathing.

Phrases

  • heave in sight (or into view)

    • Come into view.

      〔主航海〕进入视野,出现

      the three canoes hove into view
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Today's revelations of the American meetings, the anger of Boyce and the faltering Labour lead in the polls will ensure that those around Blair continue to bite their nails as the last 96 hours of the campaign hove into view.
      • It is said, too, that sailors, beating up against the wind in the Gulf of Finland, sometimes see a strange sail heave in sight astern and overhaul them hand over hand.
      • As his arrival date hove into view, I assembled a labour soundtrack.
      • Soon the shining titanium flanks of the museum hove into view.
      • After several minutes, he heard the watchman approach, mumbling a song under his breath, then hove into view, his lantern preceding him.
      • So far the neighbours have not actually complained but they have been seen to dive for cover when the verbose trio hove into view.
      • Familiar faces hove into view and the barman greets me by name even though I've not been here for eight months.
      • An idyllic spot of woodland might hove into view, but tantalisingly only as a remote island in an ocean of ploughed fields.
      • Sure enough, several miles later a small isolated mound hove into view with a scrubby acacia tree perched on top.
      • He gasped as a fully armed hovertank hove into view.
      • Once he hove into view at our table, the lights went out and I had to order in the dark.
      • But it doesn't alter the fact that the display moves up several gears and explodes into a great and sensuous ripeness when the art of the Ottomans finally heaves into view.
      • Later, as the 200-page mark heaves into view, it's ‘Write and enjoy!’
      • I order from the meat trolley, a big stainless steel affair in which various meats are submerged in hot water and juices and heaved into view when a lever is pulled.
      • The chamber pot was shrouded in fog when I began to look for it, and then, as the wind blew stronger, it hove into view.
      • Fortunately for us, an offshore sailing dinghy race hove into view, half a dozen racing dinghies screaming downwind.
      • Thus began an uneasy night of watching our possessions like hawks and suspiciously eyeing up anyone who hove into view - this excluded the waiting staff who seemed to be doing their best to avoid us and/or forget our orders.
      • Then a span of rock hove into view, barring the passage.
      • On 18 May 1565 130 galleys and 50 transports carrying 30,000 troops hove in sight of what is now Valetta.
      • Somebody was keeping count, and great cheers went up every time our heroine hove into view.

Phrasal Verbs

  • heave to

    • (of a boat or ship) come to a stop, especially by turning across the wind leaving the headsail backed.

      〔主航海〕(船)顶风停航,(船)停航

      he hove to and dropped anchor
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The ship was hove to and the men in charge of patching were swung over in rope slings.
      • The boat heaves to under power and waits, the skipper aware of the half-mile visibility in haze.
      • ‘You will also practise being captain of your own ship, repairing the engine and heaving to in a storm,’ she said.
      • As they approached the coast of Western Australia the wind blew too heavily for the ship to make landfall and they had to heave to with close reefed topsails.
      • Seeking water, Alexander heaved to and sent out a boat.

Origin

Old English hebban, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heffen and German heben ‘lift up’.

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