Meaning & use
Heaving
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Lifting or throwing something heavy with great effort; also, rising and falling rhythmically, as in breathing or waves.
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The sailors were heaving the anchor up from the seabed.
Her chest was heaving after the long sprint.
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Can describe both the physical act of lifting and the rhythmic rise and fall of something like breath or waves.
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