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Synonyms for heave
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
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 are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for heave as it is used in the sentence above.
- retch
- lift
- fling
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Closest first: other actions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
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