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Synonyms for heave
Synonyms for heave: heaving and hoist. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for heave
Interchangeable with heave in this sense
Audited under heave's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one heave carries in that sense.
- heavingnoun, in the sense "throwing something heavy (with great effort)"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name heave as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- hoisthoist is a verb in the sense "to raise something heavy, often using effort or a mechanism"
one of these comes from heave's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
throwing something heavy (with great effort)
He gave it a mighty heave.
The true synonym
heaving
Same sentence, swapped: He gave it a mighty heaving.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for heave in the sentence quoted.
- retch
- lift
- fling
Where heave turns up in the game
heave is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where heave is the trap
- puffverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is whiff, in the sense "smoke and exhale strongly", and heave is on the board beside it.
Play heave
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so heave reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. heave carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.