Sekirov Dictionary

heaving

/ˈhiːvɪŋ/

adjective 3
noun 1
forms 3

adjective3

Of the chest, rising and falling noticeably from exertion, emotion, or laboured breathing.
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(informal) Crowded with people.
- Kinlochewe was heaving with cyclists and their vehicles on Saturday morning but somehow,^([sic]) the organisers had found space for everyone and the main roads were kept clear. — 2006
(literary) Of the bosom, full, ample, or voluptuous in form, irrespective of movement.

noun1

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An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.
- No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea-- No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene." — 1884

forms

heavings · more heaving · most heaving

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