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Definition of heaving : 1. A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.
2. breathing heavily ( as after exertion)

Synonyms:

backward and forward, bulging, full, cramped, packed, back and forth, heave, undulating, dense, lift, jammed, hither and thither, up and down, from side to side, retch, busy, panting, crowded, two-way, about, to and fro, teeming, trousering, raise, congested

inspiring, energizing, enticing, bumping, fermenting, jolting, hurtling, nudging, hastening, inducing, moving, jerking, magnetizing, jostling, poking, fomenting, triggering, motivating, striking, prompting, jogging, stimulating, knocking, shooting, forcing, punching, instigating, encouraging, urging, provoking

flicking, pelting, chucking, slinging, driving, impelling, butting, precipitating, catapulting, tossing, bowling, hurling, canting, casting, throwing, pushing, flinging, thrusting, lobbing, projecting, goading, propelling, launching, bunting, firing, compelling, ramming, shoving, prodding, pitching, shunting

Usage examples:

• Beyond this the eye saw nothing but clouds of mist heaving and smoking to the very lip of the fall. - "Hetty Wesley", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
• Heaving a sigh as of relief, she went on: " Mr. Lane was insane, I am certain. - "Blindfolded", Earle Ashley Walcott.
• They went back to work, stooping, straining, heaving, blinded with the flying plaster, wounded with the sharp edges of the shattered stones. - "Home Fires in France", Dorothy Canfield.