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Word entry · 5 letters

heave

Best crossword clue

"Lift with effort"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈhiːv/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aeehvStarts with HEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

Word origin

From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti, from the root *kap-. See also have.

Used in a sentence

  • We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing.
  • He hove himself out of the bed.
  • They hove rocks into the pond.

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