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heaves

present tense third-person singular of heave

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1 to lift with effort

I heaved my duffel bag into the bus's overhead compartment

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2 to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth

heaved as soon as he stepped off the roller coaster

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nauseates

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3 to move from a lower to a higher place or position

heaved the bucket from the bottom of the well

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rears,
upends

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drops,
lowers

4 to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm

heaved the brick over the fence

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lets fly

5 to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty

by the time he reached the top step of the tower, he was heaving

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is out of breath

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