Heaving

Quick meaning: Heaving is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of heave.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of heave.

More Meanings

1. (informal) Crowded with people.
2. Of the chest, rising and falling noticeably from exertion, emotion, or laboured breathing.
3. (literary) Of the bosom, full, ample, or voluptuous in form, irrespective of movement.
4. An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.

Example Sentences

His throne rocked with subterraneous heavings.

Then he set the jug down wrong side up, and remained glaring at it fixedly, while his chest rose and fell in deep heavings.

No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea-- No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene."

"You know what Paddington is like when it's absolutely heaving. There is nowhere for kids. You're holding their hands, you're holding the luggage, you're trying to move the pram, you're working out where to go. It really is quite stressful.

Word Forms

• heavings

Synonyms for heaving

Depending on context, synonyms include heave, moving, vomit, puking, regurgitation, disgorgement.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include moving, disgorgement, panting, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting.

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