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Meaning of Heaving | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈhiːvɪŋ

Definitions

An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.

Equivalents

العربية الرفع
Suomi heivaaminen
Svenska hivning

Examples

“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."”
“His throne rocked with subterraneous heavings.”
“Then he set the jug down wrong side up, and remained glaring at it fixedly, while his chest rose and fell in deep heavings.”

CEFR level

C2
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