heave
波浪,波涛汹涌,波涛,波浪形
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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!
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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.
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Examples
Then, Rogen convinces Franco to drink some contaminated water from a stream—which causes the 127 Hours Oscar nominee to dry-heave.
But Lomax can heave a small sigh of relief, at least for now: Legislative reform to the 1033 program will not happen in 2014.
The Chinook vibrated with deeper and deeper groans until its twin engines managed to heave up our dead weight.
But in a shocking turn of events, wrestling got eight of 14 votes and the heave-ho.
Ornstein is a friend of mine, and was a colleague until I was given the heave-ho from AEI in March 2010.
He watched her, saw the little body heave down its entire length, noted the small convulsive movements of it.
The men did “hold on” most powerfully; they did more, they hauled upon the rope, hand over hand, to a “Yo-heave-ho!”
The man roared furiously, and gave a convulsive heave that almost upset myself and the big chair, and disengaged the key!
No man on board knew when the sea might come which would heave her down, and they watched grimly as the gallant craft tore on.
Not another man stood on his feet, but the deck was strewn with the dead, whose bodies rolled about at every heave of the waves.