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heave

verb as in lift, throw with effort

verb as in discharge with force; expel from digestive system by mouth

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Example Sentences

The director’s love of opera is what makes sense of this huge, heaving epic.

For now, let’s celebrate the end of the most vexing, mean-spirited and household-dividing presidential election in modern times, as it heaves itself across the finish line and crumples in a lousy heap.

Love was attempting to throw the ball away to avoid a sack and a safety, heaving the ball blindly and into McCollough’s arms near the goal line.

Check the base of the hill; if the ground is heaved up, that’s a sign of movement.

None are desirable — especially the one involving heaving something other than a baseball — yet the former Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High star is a serious Cy Young Award contender in his third major league season.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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