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Nouns (7)

n. throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes"

n. the act of lifting something with great effort

n. (geology) a horizontal dislocation

n. the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"

Verbs (16)

v. raise; "up the ante"

heave

v. throw with great effort

heave

v. move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight"

heave, gag

v. make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

heave, utter a sound

v. utter a sound, as with obvious effort; "She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do"

heave, buckle, warp

v. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

heave, heft, heft up

v. lift or elevate

heave, surge, billow

v. become inflated; "The sails ballooned"

Adverbs (3)

up, upward, upwards

adv. spatially, temporally, or metaphorically up :"Look up!" "Let's move the date up"; "The music surged up"

Adjectives (12)

adj. used up; "time is up"

adj. (used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?"

adj. open; "the windows are up"

adj. being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up"

up, improving

adj. getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy"

up, astir, out of bed

adj. out of bed; "are they astir yet?"; "up by seven each morning"

up, upbound, upward

adj. extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"

Fuzzynyms (141)

promotion

n. act of raising in rank or position

shove

n. the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something); "he gave the door a shove"

pelt, pepper

v. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions"

pitch, toss, flip, sky

v. throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper"

lift, raise, get up, bring up, elevate

v. raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

heave, heft, heave up, heft up

v. lift or elevate

hover, levitate

v. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate"

put, position, place, set, pose, lay

v. put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

hike, boost

v. increase; "The landlord hiked up the rents"

boost, shove upward, push upward

v. push or shove upward, as if from below or behind; "The singer had to be boosted onto the stage by a special contraption"

hoist, run up

v. raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"

heft

v. test the weight of something by lifting it

tug, lug, tote, lug along, tote along

v. carry with difficulty; "You'll have to lug this suitcase"

drag, draw, shlep, pull along

v. pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"

drag, haul, cart

v. draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"

pull, draw, force

v. cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"

tow, drag behind

v. drag behind; "Horses used to tow barges along the canal"

deform, change form, change shape

v. assume a different shape or form

cripple

v. deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"

gnarl

v. twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree"

maim, wound seriously, injure seriously

v. injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion"

murder, mangle, mutilate

v. press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets"

twist, distort

v. form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"

grab, force away, wrest, pull away

v. pull away

jerk, yank

v. pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open"

wring, deform, distort, contort

v. twist and press out of shape

debauch, pervert, corrupt, vitiate, debase, demoralize, profane, deprave, misdirect

v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

strain, deform, distort

v. alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"

prejudice, prepossess

v. influence (somebody's) opinion in advance

twist

v. form into twists; "Twist the strips of dough"

swell

v. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

heave, surge, billow

v. become inflated; "The sails ballooned"

lift, raise, get up, bring up, elevate

v. raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

heave

v. move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight"

hover, levitate

v. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate"

put, position, place, set, pose, lay

v. put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"

hike, boost

v. increase; "The landlord hiked up the rents"

hoist, run up

v. raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"

tug, lug, tote, lug along, tote along

v. carry with difficulty; "You'll have to lug this suitcase"

jerk, hitch, buck

v. jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched; "the yung filly bucked"

drag, draw, shlep, pull along

v. pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"

drag, haul, cart

v. draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"

pull, draw, force

v. cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"

tow, drag behind

v. drag behind; "Horses used to tow barges along the canal"

swell, distend, swell up

v. expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

bulk, bulge, cause to bulge

v. cause to bulge or swell outwards

swell

v. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

heave, buckle, warp

v. bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave"

failing

adj. below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"

Synonyms (39)

over, completed, terminated, concluded, ended, all over

adj. having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview"

done, through, through with

adj. having finished or arrived at completion; "certain to make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed"; "after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up"; "almost through with his studies"

through with, done with

adj. having no further concern with; "he was through with school and he was through with family"- John Dos Passos; "done with gambling"; "done with drinking"

running, working, operative, functional

adj. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"

elevated

adj. raised above the ground; "an elevated platform"

upraised, lifted

adj. held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag"

ascending

adj. moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed"

high

adj. (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high'); "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high"

bull

adj. characterized by rising prices: "a bull market"

emerging

adj. coming to maturity; "the rising generation"

insomniac, sleepless, wakeful

adj. experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare

unsleeping, wide-awake

adj. fully awake; "the unsleeping city"; "so excited she was wide-awake all night"

waking

adj. marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours"

uphill, acclivitous, upward-sloping

adj. sloping upward

ascendant, ascendent, ascensive

adj. tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin

assurgent

adj. growing or extending upward; "an assurgent stem or leaf"

assurgent

adj. rising from the sea; "a seahorse assurgent"

climbing, scandent

adj. used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; "plants of a creeping or scandent nature"

soaring

adj. "a soaring eagle"

Antonyms (5)

straighten out, straighten

v. make straight

clarify, clear by heating

v. make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating; "clarify the butter"; "clarify beer"

down

adj. being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"

heave up

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