Heave in Scrabble and Meaning

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Is heave a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word heave is a Scrabble US word. The word heave is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

H4E1A1V4E1

Is heave a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word heave is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

H4E1A1V4E1

Is heave a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word heave is a Words With Friends word. The word heave is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3E1A1V5E1

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5-letter words (2 found)

HEAVE,HEVEA,

4-letter words (2 found)

EAVE,HAVE,

3-letter words (5 found)

AVE,EVE,HAE,VAE,VEE,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AH,EA,EE,EH,HA,HE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from heave according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of heave

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Definitions and meaning of heave

heave

Etymology

From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (to take up, lift), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p-. See also have.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hiːv/
  • Rhymes: -iːv

Verb

heave (third-person singular simple present heaves, present participle heaving, simple past heaved or hove, past participle heaved or hove or hoven or heft)

  1. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
  2. (transitive) To throw, cast.
  3. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
  4. (transitive) To utter with effort.
  5. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
  6. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
  7. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
    • 17 June, 1857, Edward Everett, The Statue of Warren
      the heaving sods of Bunker Hill
  8. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
  9. (transitive, archaic) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
  10. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
  11. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
  12. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
  13. (obsolete, British, thieves' cant) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • heavy
  • heft

Descendants

  • Danish: hive
  • Faroese: hiva
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hiva, hive
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hive
  • Scanian: hyva
    Hallandian: hiva
  • Swedish: hiva
    Sudermannian: hyva

Translations

Noun

heave (plural heaves)

  1. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
  2. 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, etc.
  3. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
  4. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
  5. An effort to vomit; retching.
  6. (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
  7. (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory

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Anagrams

  • hevea

Source: wiktionary.org