Clues for the word "HEAVE"
We've had 124 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 302 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on March 13, 2025.
Definition of heave
- v. t. - To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.
- v. t. - To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
- v. t. - To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.
- v. t. - To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
- v. t. - To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
- v. i. - To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- v. i. - To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.
- v. i. - To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- v. i. - To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
- n. - An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
- n. - 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, and the like.
- n. - A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
Referring Clues
- Nautical order
- Throw with effort
- Throw
- "___ ho!"
- Ho preceder
- Cry to anchor men
- Give a lift
- Pitch
- Cast
- Throw, as a shot put
- Throw with great effort
- Big throw
- Rise and fall, as a ship
- Throw with force
- Command to a lifter
- Chuck
- Strain to lift
- "Everybody lift together!"
- Cry made with great effort
- Breathe hard
- Lift with effort
- Throw with strain
- Fling with force
- Emit, as a sigh
- Lift with a grunt
- Breathe with effort
- Hoist
- Fling with effort
- Laborious throw
- ___-ho
- Mighty throw
- Throw with might
- Ho head?
- Cast mightily
- Put up a Hail Mary
- Fling overboard
- Shot-put throw
- Stop at sea, with "to"
- Throw, as a discus
- Fling
- Stops, to a sailor
- Lift
- Call to an anchor man
- Put the shot
- Toss
- Ho predecessor
- Sailing maneuver
- Hurl hard
- Strong cast
- Hurl
- Toss hard
- Throw hard
- ___ -ho
- "___-ho!"
- Let fly
- Lift and throw
- Mighty toss
- Give the ___-ho (oust)
- Lift laboriously
- Hoist with great effort
- "Ho" preceder
- Put some effort into lifting
- Let out, as a sigh
- Express, as a deep sigh
- Start of a nautical order
- Fling mightily
- Ride the swells
- Emit, as a big sigh
- Ho opener
- Pant
- "Ho!" preceder
- Haul up
- Pitch with force
- Sling
- Throw, as an anchor
- Throw forcefully
- Cast overhead
- Throw, as a shot
- "___-ho!": "Everybody lift together!"
- ___-ho (rejection)
- Lose it?
- Chuck overboard
- Drag
- "___ ho!" ("Lift!")
- Ambassador has a very English fling
- Pull something heavy
- To retch, which is endless bliss!
- Haul - retch
- Big effort brings supreme happiness, all but
- Strain to lift what's reversed onto road
- Haul with effort
- Retch - lift using much effort
- Greeting man on top of hoist
- Retch
- Throw with force - retch
- Guy greeting gag
- Swell, but not quite paradise
- Pullman - greeting!
- Hurl into sky, almost
- Lift, but not easily
- Ho's predecessor?
- See 1 Across
- Launch
- Not just fling
- Haul strenuously
- Haul
- Pull strenuously
- Ending of "Paradise Lost" making one throw up
- Haul up last case into hold
- Cast in low spirits, mostly, at the end of revue
- Extremely habitable address for Maria and Chuck
- Lift with force
- Pull a string to get into "2"
- Utter, as a sigh
- Something to do with a sigh?
- Mighty 23-Down
- Cast with difficulty
- It's more than a fling
- Pull gag
- Big cast?
- Release, as a sigh
- *Hold on to
- Pull
- What chests and waves may do
Last Seen In
- New York Times - March 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 11, 2025
- New York Times - February 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 10, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 06, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 25, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 08, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 27, 2024
- Your Life Choices - October 08, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 11, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 04, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 03, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 26, 2024
- Mirror Mini - August 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 26, 2024
- USA Today - July 01, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 19, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 11, 2024
- Your Life Choices - June 06, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 18, 2024
- Your Life Choices - March 12, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - February 21, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - February 11, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - January 25, 2024
- LA Times - January 03, 2024
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