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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
1H2E3A4V5E

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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