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heave

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of HEAVE

to lift with effort <I heaved my duffel bag into the bus's overhead compartment>

Synonyms boost, heft, hoist, jack (up), upheave

Related Words elevate, hike, pick up, raise, rear, up, uplift, upraise, uprear

Near Antonyms depress, drop, lower; sink, submerge, submerse

to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth <heaved as soon as he stepped off the roller coaster>

Synonyms barf, gag, heave, hurl, puke, retch, spew, spit up, throw up, upchuck

Related Words disgorge, regurgitate; eject, expel; nauseate

to move from a lower to a higher place or position <heaved the bucket from the bottom of the well>

Synonyms boost, crane, elevate, heave, heft, heighten, hike, hoist, jack (up), lift, perk (up), pick up, take up, up, uphold, uplift, upraise

Related Words ascend, mount, rise; rear, upend

Near Antonyms descend, dip, fall, pitch, plunge, slip; bear, depress, press, push; sink, submerge

Antonyms drop, lower

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm <heaved the brick over the fence>

Synonyms cast, catapult, chuck, dash, fire, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, loft, peg, pelt, pitch, sling, toss

Related Words bowl, dart, flip, gun, hook, pass, roll, shoot; buck, eject, impel, precipitate, project, propel, rifle, thrust

to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty <by the time he reached the top step of the tower, he was heaving>

Synonyms blow, heave, hyperventilate, pant, puff, wheeze

Related Words choke, gag, gulp, huff; asphyxiate, smother, stifle, strangle; snore, snuffle; exhale, expire

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