heave | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heaving |
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(noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heaving |
(noun) the act of raising something | Synonyms: lift, raise |
(noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: retch |
(noun) (geology) a horizontal dislocation | - |
(noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heaving |
(verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, retch |
(verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, pant, puff |
(verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, warp |
(verb) utter a sound, as with obvious effort | - |
(verb) lift or elevate | Synonyms: heave up, heft, heft up |
(verb) throw with great effort | - |
(verb) rise and move, as in waves or billows | Synonyms: billow, surge |
(verb) move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position | - |
heaven | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, nirvana, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la |
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heavenly | (adjective) of or belonging to heaven or god | - |
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(adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: celestial |
(adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: celestial |
heavens | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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heavenward | (adjective) directed toward heaven or the sky | Synonyms: skyward |
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(adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenwardly, heavenwards |
heavenwardly | (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenward, heavenwards |
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heavenwards | (adverb) toward heaven | Synonyms: heavenward, heavenwardly |
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heaver | (noun) a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) | - |
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(noun) a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard) | - |
heaves | (noun) a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks | Synonyms: broken wind |
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heavily | (adverb) to a considerable degree | Synonyms: to a great extent |
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(adverb) indulging excessively | Synonyms: hard, intemperately |
(adverb) slowly as if burdened by much weight | Synonyms: heavy |
(adverb) in a manner designed for heavy duty | - |
(adverb) in a heavy-footed manner | - |
(adverb) with great force | - |
(adverb) in a labored manner | - |
heaviness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: weightiness |
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(noun) used of a line or mark | Synonyms: thickness |
(noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
(noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: ponderousness |
(noun) persisting sadness | - |
heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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(noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
(noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
(noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
heavy | (adjective) of comparatively great physical weight or density | - |
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(adjective) marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness | - |
(adjective) unusually great in degree or quantity or number | - |
(adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment | - |
(adjective) (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight | - |
(adjective) of great intensity or power or force | - |
(adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: lowering, sullen, threatening |
(adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, cloggy |
(adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: profound, sound, wakeless |
(adjective) lacking lightness or liveliness | Synonyms: leaden |
(adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
(adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, overweight |
(adjective) full of; bearing great weight | Synonyms: weighed down |
(adjective) full and loud and deep | Synonyms: sonorous |
(adjective) large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work | - |
(adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: lumbering, ponderous |
(adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grave, grievous, weighty |
(adjective) dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal | - |
(adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: hard, intemperate |
(adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, large, with child |
(adjective) sharply inclined | - |
(adjective) made of fabric having considerable thickness | - |
(adjective) (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain | - |
(adjective) requiring or showing effort | Synonyms: labored, laboured |
(adjective) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter | Synonyms: dense, impenetrable |
(adjective) prodigious | Synonyms: big |
(adjective) of relatively large extent and density | - |
(noun) a serious (or tragic) role in a play | - |
(noun) an actor who plays villainous roles | - |
(adverb) slowly as if burdened by much weight | Synonyms: heavily |
heavyhearted | (adjective) depressed | - |
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heavyheartedness | (noun) a feeling of dispirited melancholy | - |
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heavyset | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, stocky, thick, thickset |
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heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
(noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
(noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |