to heave

Examples

• All

• It was Gray, pink, Gray, pink, which you know, might have been the style at one point, but some of them are starting to heave a little bit.

• Trees in the street are supposed to not heave sidewalks, but grates around them belie that.

  Blog text (23)

• It's been so dry the roads are ground down flat, a treat after the frost heaves, the muds of April.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Over millions of years, the landscape here has been heaved up by volcanoes and flattened by glaciers.

  Academic text (2007)

• Over the winter, the ground had frozen, then thawed, causing it to heave and lift stones to the surface.

• After heavy rains, the saturated soil began to heave, pushing upward against the pavement.

• The construction workers watched as the ground started to heave due to the shifting pressure from below.

Synonyms

B

to buckle

vsto heave

46 4.1

To bend and become damaged under strong pressure or heat

is an outward bulge rather than an inward fold or collapse

W

to warp

vsto heave

26 4.9

To bend out of shape when heated or wet

is an outward bulge caused by pressure or heat, not a twist

Antonyms

C

to compress

94 3.7

To press something so it takes less space

F

to flatten

23 2.6

Make something flat and smooth by pressing it

Idioms

G

to give the heave-ho

• Informal

4 8.5

To tell someone to leave their job or to stop using something

Phrasal Verbs

H

to heave up

• Informal

3 4.5

To lift something heavy with a lot of effort

Compounds

F

frost heave

• UK

8.0

Soil or road that rises when water in the ground freezes and expands

How Deformed

to rupture

95 6.8

to heave

1 5.9

to warp

26 4.9

to bend

268 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology