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heaving

/heev/US // hiv //UK // (hiːv) //

波涛汹涌,堆积如山,波涛汹涌的,波澜壮阔

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v.有主动词 verb
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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!
v.无主动词 verb
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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.
n.名词 noun
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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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Examples

  • 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."