to heave
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6.7
- verb
- /hiv/
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tener arcadas
- You just keep dry-heaving anyway.
- dry heave
- stomach heaved
- retch and heave
I'm on hands are on my knees and I'm like coughing, like dry heaving, like hurting.
- I'm on hands are on my knees and I'm like coughing, like dry heaving, like hurting.
- And when I was going to throw up, I thought I was having smiling attacks where I was going, but I was dry heaving.
Examples
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At the sink, Cara heaved up a mouthful of bile.
Fiction book (1993) -
I retched and heaved, tried to push her hands away, felt cartilage grating, and began to weep silently.
Fiction book (1994) -
Just as he was giving me a final kick in the stomach for luck, I managed to heave all over his new shoes!
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Whenever I throw up, just before, I always get the same image in my mind, right before I'm about to heave.
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I heaved all over my friend Eddie.
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Later, I was awake and dry-heaving through the fence around the train yard.
Fiction book (1994) -
Sarah's stomach heaved into her throat, and she fled back down the hall into her bathroom.
Fiction book (1992) -
Just as he was giving me a final kick in the stomach for luck, I managed to heave all over his new shoes!
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I heaved all over my friend Eddie after feeling nauseous for hours.
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I woke up at 3:00 a.m., heaving and sweating from feeling ill.
Synonyms
9
7.2
To make a strong, uncontrolled effort to vomit, sometimes bringing up food from your stomach
5
5.1
To feel like you will throw up when something touches your throat
To feel like you will vomit
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Etymology
Heave comes from the old English hebban 'to lift', and this idea of trying to lift something out explains the sense of straining to vomit; to heave here is to retch or make a strong effort as if to throw something up.