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Keywords: thaws, freezes, swell, collapse, rise

A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

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the partial or complete collapse of the walls of a hole resulting from internal pressures due primarily to swelling from hydration or formation gas pressures. See caving.

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Applied to the rising of the bottom after removal of the coal; a sharp rise in the floor is called a "hogsback".

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The process of a plant being pushed out of the soil that occurs when the ground alternately freezes and thaws in winter.

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an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); "the heaving of waves on a rough sea"

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rising and falling alternately as in waves; "the heaving waves in the storm-tossed sea"; "the exhausted dog's heaving chest"

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Throwing up, or the repeated freezing and thawing of moist soil during winter conditions.

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The partial or complete collapse of borehole walls resulting from internal pressures due primarily to swelling from water absorption or formation of gas pressures.

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The slight swelling or raising of the surface caused by partial softening of the undercoat by the solvents in the succeeding coat.

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A swelling or rising of the surface caused by the freezing and thawing of soil.

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Soil heaving, including frost heaving.

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Keywords: mighty, lifting, effort, great, displaced

Process in which the ground in front of a pipe jack may be displaced forward and upward causing a lifting of the ground surface.

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the act of lifting something with great effort

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throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes"

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Keywords: exertion, breathing

breathing heavily (as after exertion)

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