What is another word for heaves?

Pronunciation: [hˈiːvz] (IPA)

"Heaves" is a word used to indicate a bodily motion, like an upward movement caused by intense respiratory effort, coughing, or vomiting. If you're writing a paper and don't want to use "heaves" repeatedly, there are other synonyms that you can use, including "retching," "throwing up," "hurling," "vomiting," "nauseating," and "spitting up." You can also use "retching" to describe an intense physical reaction to a situation or stimulus, like a bad smell or a disturbing sight. Whether you're writing a paper or telling a story, using synonyms for "heaves" can add variety and prevent repetition, keeping your audience engaged and interested in what you have to say.

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What are the hypernyms for Heaves?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Heaves

His high-coloured features and reddish moustache were smeared with black oil, and he was breathing in heaves as though he had been running.
"Command"
William McFee
There is a solemn grey sky sweeping over us from Spain, with a grandeur and breadth that one only associates with Spanish skies, and there is a fresh breeze, but warm from the land, and this big tub moves a little, enough to make one realise the Sea is alive, her bosom heaves us along slightly, a delightful motion for some of us, and intensely soothing, but alas!
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
His bosom heaves as if he were laboring to raise the words he is about to speak from the uttermost depths of his soul.
"The Silent Mill"
Hermann Sudermann

Famous quotes with Heaves

  • Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village.
    Morrow Mayo
  • Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.
    Vanna Bonta
  • And then there crept A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
    John Keats
  • "The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps. He must know pain of heart. He must know frustration, and he must know anguish. Bring these to him. And you will be rewarded."
    Robert Jordan
  • The night room heaves a sigh, yes heaves, a Sigh — old-fashioned comical room, oh me I'm hopeless, born a joker never change, flirting away through the mirrorframe in something green-striped, pantalooned, and ruffled — meantime though, it is quaint, most rooms today hum you know, have been known also to "breathe," yes even wait in hushed expectancy and that ought to be the rather sinister tradition here, long slender creatures, heavy perfume and capes in rooms assailed by midnight, pierced with spiral stairways, blue-petaled pergolas, an ambience in which no one, however provoked or out of touch, my dear young lady, ever, heaves, a Sigh. It is not done.
    Thomas Pynchon

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