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heaves::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | broken wind |
| Type of | animal disease |
Examples of heaves
heaves
He was intercepted twice on desperation heaves that were completely unnecessary.
From the dallasnews.com
On the brink of a blowout, the Rockets began to drain some of those long heaves.
From the chron.com
By now our poor girl had the dry heaves since she lacked anything to regurgitate.
From the sfgate.com
A woman next to her heaves a rock over her head in order to brain another soldier.
From the chron.com
Raina heaves crashes four through long-on, then bangs four through mid-wicket.
From the guardian.co.uk
Lever spots the croc and heaves his personally designed, nonlethal bamboo harpoon.
From the time.com
The not-so-good therapist leaves the client, heaves a sigh of relief and moves on.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Ones and twos, and then Samit spots a Yadav slower ball and heaves it to cow.
From the telegraph.co.uk
As the DC-3 heaves itself off the ground, I look at the peaceful scene below.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- An upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); "the heaving of waves on a rough sea"
- Utter a sound, as with obvious effort; "She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do"
- Throw with great effort
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- Billow: rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward"
- An involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting; "a bad case of the heaves"
- In mechanics, degrees of freedom (DOF) are the set of independent displacements and/or rotations that specify completely the displaced or deformed position and orientation of the body or system. ...
- (Heaves) Recurrent airway obstruction, also known as broken wind, heaves, or sometimes by the term usually used for humans ("chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" or "disorder"), is a respiratory disease in horses. ...
- (Heaving) Vomiting (known medically as emesis and informally as throwing up and a number of other terms) is the forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose. ...
