heave

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
2. (transitive) To throw, cast.
3. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
4. (transitive) To utter with effort.
5. (transitive) To pull up with a rope or cable.
6. (archaic, transitive) 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) To displace (a vein, stratum).
9. (archaic, transitive) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
10. (ambitransitive) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
11. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
12. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
13. (British, obsolete) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.

Noun

1. (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
4. (countable, uncountable) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
5. (countable, uncountable) An effort to vomit; retching.
6. (attributive, countable, rare, uncountable) Broken wind in horses.
7. (countable, uncountable) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory

Synonyms

lift

raise

retch

hoist

throw

wave

👋

toss

surge

cast

elevate

sway

heaving

gasp

rise

pant

lift up

fling

pull

flicker

uplift

flutter

heft

tug

lever

undulate

drag

pick up

pitch

chuck

yank

upheave

vomit

hurl

billow

gag

haul

buckle

cut

sling

sigh

swell

breed

raise up

push

rear

roll

swelling

farm

project

lob

Translations

heffen

heben

alçar

aixecar

hochheben

erguer

lancer

lever

tillen

alzare

wuchten

enlairar

elevar

wehen

onduler

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hiːv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: heven

Inherited from Old English: hebban

Cognate with Western Frisian: heffe

Cognate with Dutch: heffen

Cognate with German: heben

Cognate with Danish: hæve

Cognate with Albanian: kap

Cognate with Old Irish: cáin

Cognate with Latin: capiō

Cognate with Latvian: kàmpt

Cognate with Ancient Greek: κάπτω

In summary

From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p-. See also have.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen ("to raise", "to lift"), German heben ("to raise", "to lift"), Danish hæve ("to raise", "to lift"), Albanian kap (“I grasp, seize”), Old Irish cáin (“law, tribute”), cacht (“prisoner”), Latin capiō (“to take”), Latvian kàmpt (“to seize”), Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”), κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”)).
(To lift, to raise): Compare typologically Russian поднима́ть (podnimátʹ), подня́ть (podnjátʹ) (akin to има́ть (imátʹ), име́ть (imétʹ) < Proto-Slavic *jьmati, *jьměti).