HEFTED Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

hefted

verb

past tense of heft

as in hoisted

to lift with effort hefted his growing son onto his shoulders

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to move from a lower to a higher place or position heft your baggy gym shorts a little higher—you're showing us more than we care to see

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Recent Examples of hefted The judge also hefted an additional $250 fine to one person’s charge for taking rocks. — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 12 Mar. 2026 Here in our yards, long years of earth have been hefted by hand and heaped up on tarps. — Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2025

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Keith’s fire company had to have seen what just happened, Roma thought as he was hoisted into an ambulance.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026
Angel hoisted himself into the cab of a front loader Mack truck.

— Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

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During championship weekend, when Venus Williams and Lleyton Hewitt lifted the singles trophies, Maycen and Morehouse played against each other in mixed doubles at Pine Orchard Yacht & Country Club in Branford, Conn.

— Lukas Weese, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
But that ruling was lifted by the Supreme Court in a procedural decision that did not determine whether the plan was constitutional.

— NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026

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Canada did just that and then heaved the ball the length of the court to a wide-open Angel Reese with 15 seconds left.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
In Aleppo, in the suburbs of Damascus, across Syria, people and neighborhoods heaved under the trauma of the last 14 years.

— Lina Sergie Attar, Time, 6 Aug. 2026

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Lomonaco and the restaurant’s owners formed Windows of Hope, a charitable foundation that raised more than $22 million to pay for healthcare and tuition costs for the children of the victims.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Home built in phases A larger house came after the cabin, where Roebbelen and his wife, Kimberly, raised their three children.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026

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