heave – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to heave in sight
Participle: heaved in sight
Gerund: heaving in sight

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	heave in sight
we	Let's heave in sight
you	heave in sight

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to rob

steal

to regurgitate the contents of a stomach

bait, be sick, blow chunks, boak, boke, boot, cast up one's accounts, chunder, disgorge, drive the porcelain bus, erupt, gag, honk, hurl, launch one's lunch, puke, puke up, purge, ralph, regurge, regurgitate, retch, sick up, spew, throw up, toss one's cookies, upchuck, vomit, yak

raise

elevate, hoist, lift

breathe

exhale, pant

vomit

retch

undulate

bulge, dilate, palpitate, expand, rise, swell

throw

hurl, fling, cast

slosh

roll, rock, bob, pitch, lurch, waft, ebb

Antonyms

raise

depress, decrease, degrade, debase

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. O.E. hebban "to lift, raise" (class VI strong verb; past tense hof, pp. hafen), from P.Gmc. *khafjanan (cf. O.N. hefja, Du. heffen, Ger. heben, Goth. hafjan), from PIE *kap- "seize;" related to O.E. habban "to hold, possess." Sense of "retch, make an effort to vomit" is first attested 1601. Nautical heave-ho was a chant in lifting.
2. 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.
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen ("to raise", "to lift"), German heben ("to raise", "to lift"), Danish hæve ("to raise", "to lift"), Albanian kap (“to grasp, seize”), Old Irish cáin (“law, tribute”), cacht (“prisoner”), Latin capiō (“to take”), Latvian kàmpt (“to seize”), Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”), κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”)).
5. (To lift, to raise): Compare typologically Russian поднима́ть (podnimátʹ), подня́ть (podnjátʹ) (akin to има́ть (imátʹ), име́ть (imétʹ) < Proto-Slavic *jьmati, *jьměti). See: Middle English 'heven', Old English 'hebban', Proto-Germanic '*habjaną', Proto-Indo-European '*kapyéti', Dutch 'heffen', German, old spelling 'heben', Danish 'hæve', Albanian 'kap', Latin 'capiō'.

Verbs referencing "heave"

English havoc, Danish hive, Norwegian, nynorsk hive, German, old spelling heben, Icelandic hefja, Norwegian, nynorsk hevja, Danish hæve, Finnish with old forms heivata, German, old spelling hieven, German, Pennsylvania hewe, Swedish häva, Luxembourgish hiewen, Norwegian, nynorsk hiva, Swedish hiva, Norwegian, nynorsk heve, Norwegian, nynorsk heva, Cimbrian höoban, Norwegian, nynorsk hevje.

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