Heaves Synonyms & Definitions

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• HeavesDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

• HeaveDefinition & Meaning in English

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