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Word entry · 5 letters

heavy

Best crossword clue

"Hard to lift"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɛv.i/Part of speech adjective, adverb, nounSorted aehvyStarts with HEnds with Y2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. in an advanced stage of pregnancy

Word origin

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Equivalent to heave + -y. Related to have.

Used in a sentence

  • Can you help me carry this? It's really heavy.
  • Use the scales to measure how heavy it is.
  • But now, ten years later, after his recent shipwreck, he cannot compete as a runner, though he can outthrow the slighter Phaeacians with the heaviest discus.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Hard to lift5 letters
02Not light5 letters

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