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heavings
n. (plural of heaving English)
Usage examples of "heavings".
After a brief interval its heavings became less tumultuous and powerful.
Soon the heavings turned to convulsions that became more and more violent.
There were clouds of steam, convulsive heavings of what seemed to be brown earth.
It responded to stimuli-such as the searing of its surface-with anguished heavings and withdrawals from the pain.
The ambulance man caught hold of one of my arms and the stretcher case the other, and despite fairly desperate heavings and struggles on my part they managed between them to hold the damp cotton wool over my nose and mouth.