heave

heave is a 5-letter English word with 26 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 26 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
3. transitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
5. transitive verb. To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
6. intransitive verb. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
7. intransitive verb. 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.
8. intransitive verb. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
9. intransitive verb. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
10. noun. An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
11. noun. 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.
12. noun. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
13. noun. throwing something heavy (with great effort)

    "he gave it a mighty heave"

    "he was not good at heaving passes"

    Synonyms: heaving

14. noun. the act of raising something

    "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"

    "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"

    Synonyms: lift, raise

15. noun. an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting

    "a bad case of the heaves"

    Synonyms: retch

16. noun. the act of lifting something with great effort

    Synonyms: heaving

17. noun. (geology) a horizontal dislocation
18. noun. an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)

    "the heaving of waves on a rough sea"

    Synonyms: heaving

19. verb. breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

    "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"

    Synonyms: gasp, pant, puff

20. verb. make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

    Synonyms: gag, retch

21. verb. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat

    "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

    Synonyms: buckle, warp

22. verb. utter a sound, as with obvious effort

    "She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do"

23. verb. lift or elevate

    Synonyms: heft

24. verb. throw with great effort
25. verb. rise and move, as in waves or billows

    "The army surged forward"

    Synonyms: billow, surge

26. verb. move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position

    "The vessel hove into sight"

Synonyms

heaving, lift, raise, retch, gasp, pant, puff, gag, buckle, warp, heft, billow, surge

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in heave:

hevea

Common word forms

heaved, heaver, heaves, heaving, heaveless

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