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HEAVE
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
2
pts
Big
2
pts
Super Big
2
pts
HEAVE is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.
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verb
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transitiveTo lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing.
- He hove himself out of the bed.
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transitiveTo throw, cast.
- They hove rocks into the pond.
- The cap'n hove the body overboard.
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intransitiveTo rise and fall.
- Her chest heaved with emotion.
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transitiveTo utter with effort.
- She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
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transitiveTo pull up with a rope or cable.
- Heave up the anchor there, boys!
- archaictransitiveTo lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
- intransitiveTo be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- transitiveTo displace (a vein, stratum).
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archaictransitiveTo cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
- The wind heaved the waves.
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ambitransitiveTo move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- to heave the ship ahead
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intransitiveTo retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
- intransitiveTo make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- UKobsoleteTo rob; to steal from; to plunder.
noun
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countableAn effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- We gave one more heave and the wall toppled over at last.
- countableuncountableAn 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.
- countableuncountableA horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- countableuncountableThe measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- countableuncountableAn effort to vomit; retching.
- attributivecountablerareuncountableBroken wind in horses.
- countableuncountableA forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory