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• lift or haul (something heavy) with great effort.

• "she heaved the sofa back into place"

Similar: haul, pull, lug, manhandle, drag, draw, tug, lift, raise, hoist, heft, hump, yank, upheave,

Opposite: push,

• produce (a sigh).

• "he heaved a euphoric sigh of relief"

Similar: let out, breathe, give, sigh, gasp, emit, utter,

• rise and fall rhythmically or spasmodically.

• "his shoulders heaved as he panted"

Similar: rise and fall, roll, swell, surge, churn, boil, seethe, swirl, billow,

• an act of heaving.

• "with that last heave, Maurice's anchor wrenched clear of the mud"

• a sideways displacement in a fault.

• another term for COPD in horses.

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

• come into view.
"they held out until a British fleet hove in sight"

• (of a boat or ship) come to a stop, especially by turning across the wind leaving the headsail backed.
"he hove to and dropped anchor"