heaving
波涛汹涌,堆积如山,波涛汹涌的,波澜壮阔
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heaved or hove; heav·ing.
- : to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
- : to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence: to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window.
- : Nautical. to move into a certain position or situation: to heave a vessel aback.to move in a certain direction: Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor!
- : to utter laboriously or painfully: to heave a sigh.
- : to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion: to heave one's chest.
- : to vomit; throw up: He heaved his breakfast before noon.
- : to haul or pull on, as with the hands or a capstan: Heave the anchor cable!
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heaved or hove; heav·ing.
- : to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements: The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.
- : to breathe with effort; pant: He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort.
- : to vomit; retch.
- : to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge: The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around.
- : to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.
- : to push, as on a capstan bar.
- : Nautical. to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays. to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.
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- : an act or effort of heaving.
- : a throw, toss, or cast.
- : Geology. the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.
- : the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.
- : heaves,Also called broken wind. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing.
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- : heave down, Nautical. to careen.
- : heave out, Nautical. to shake loose.to loosen from its gaskets in order to set it.
- : heave to, Nautical.to stop the headway of, especially by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another.to come to a halt.
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By then, however, Maryland had no time for anything more meaningful than a failed full-court heave.
For the second week in a row, Pittsburgh survived a last-snap heave into the end zone by the opposing quarterback that would have won the game.
Knocked cold, Lakpa collapsed on the rocks, heaving in convulsions, Kodas wrote.
The pilot episode opens with Jacob (Landon Gimenez) waking up, heaving, in a field in a China.
Congress is heaving a sigh of relief over a reported deal to avert a default—but the crisis is nowhere near ended.
A heaving sea of female desire rages around 1D, and Harry in particular.
To see the dinosaur in the flesh—it was so realistic—I could see its fangs heaving, I could see its eyes watering.
She craned forward, the smile gone from her lips, a horror in her eyes, her bosom heaving.
She stood before him with lowered eyelids, her bosom heaving still from the agitation of fear his closeness had aroused in her.
In the midst of its heaving waters he quickly arose flinging his long arms wildly about, and shouting for help with bubbling cry.
Newton made no answer, and Jackson went forward, where the remainder of the crew were heaving up the anchor with the windlass.
Sometimes I catch myself heaving a sigh for the old man that's dead, and saying to myself, "That was a great life yonder."