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say it: heev
heave is a verb and noun meaning "utter a sound, as with obvious effort". It is pronounced /ˈhiv/ — heev. It carries 14 recorded senses.
move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
“The vessel hove into sight”
bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
“The highway buckled during the heat wave”
the act of raising something
“he responded with a lift of his eyebrow”
“fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heave come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.