We found 37 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word heave:
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 General (26 matching dictionaries)
- heave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- heave: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- heave: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Heave, heave: Wordnik [home, info]
- heave: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Heave: Wiktionary [home, info]
- heave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- heave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- heave: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- heave: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- heave: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- heave: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- heave: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- heave: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
- heave: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
- Heave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- heave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- heave: Rhymezone [home, info]
- Heave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- heave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- heave: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- heave: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- heave: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- heave: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- heave: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- heave: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- heave: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- heave: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
- heave: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- heave: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
- heave: Idioms [home, info]
Science (2 matching dictionaries)
- heave: Botanical Terms [home, info]
- Sports (1 matching dictionary)
- heave: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]
Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
- heave: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
- heave: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
- Heave: Latitude Mexico [home, info]
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Quick definitions (heave)
▸ noun: throwing something heavy (with great effort) ("He gave it a mighty heave")
▸ noun: an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting ("A bad case of the heaves")
▸ noun: the act of lifting something with great effort
▸ noun: (geology) a horizontal dislocation
▸ noun: an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
▸ noun: the act of raising something
▸ verb: nautical: to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
▸ verb: bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
▸ verb: utter a sound, as with obvious effort ("She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do")
▸ verb: lift or elevate
▸ verb: throw with great effort
▸ verb: make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
▸ verb: rise and move, as in waves or billows
▸ verb: breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
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