heave

To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing.

He hove himself out of the bed.

To throw, cast.

They hove rocks into the pond.

The cap'n hove the body overboard.

To rise and fall.

Her chest heaved with emotion.

Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.

To utter with effort.

She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.

The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.

To pull up with a rope or cable.

Heave up the anchor there, boys!

An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.

We gave one more heave and the wall toppled over at last.

July made no reply but that of a sigh. For she was thinking of the heave she must make to see herself lifted from the ground.

An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.

and now the bed shook, the curtains rattled so, that I could scarce hear the sighs and murmurs, the heaves and pantings that accompanied the action, from the beginning to the end

The slab and piles will work together to resist 'ground heave' (the upward movement of the ground as it tries to push up into the box).

A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.

An effort to vomit; retching.