heave

CEFRC1

/ˈhiːv/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To lift, pull, or throw something with great effort.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To rise and fall.

Examples

  • Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over.

  • This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈhɪi̯v]

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To throw, cast.

  2. To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

  3. To utter with effort.

More examples

In context

  • He hove himself out of the bed.

  • We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing.

  • They hove rocks into the pond.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

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 *kapyéti, from the root *kap-. 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 (“to 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)...