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heaved to

heaved to is the past of heave to.

Meaning of heave to

Verb

heave to (third-person singular simple present heaves to, present participle heaving to, simple past heaved to or hove to, past participle heaved to or hove to or hoven to)

  1. (intransitive) To cause (one's vessel) to become dead in the water by pointing the bows directly towards the wind.
  2. (intransitive) To come to a halt.

Questions about heaved to

What is heaved to the past of?
Heaved to is the past of heave to.

Words near heaved to in the dictionary

  1. heave-shoulder
  2. heave-shoulders
  3. heave-to
  4. heaved
  5. heaved the log
  6. heaved to
  7. heavedst
  8. heaveless
  9. heaven
  10. heaven forbid
  11. heaven forfend

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heaved to (page history and authors); heave to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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