Hefting [verb]

Definition of Hefting:

move upwards; ascend

Synonyms of Hefting:

● Raise

● Rise

● Pick up

● Hoist

● Climb

● Boost

● Disappear

● Soar

● Uphold

● Hike

● Mount

● Dissipate

● Up

● Erect

● Elevate

● Upraise

● Arise

● Aspire

● Uplift

● Vanish

● Rear

● Disperse

● Bring up

● Build up

● Come up

● Draw up

● Put up

● Take up

● Uprear

● Heft

● Goose

● Upheave

● Bear aloft

● Buoy up

● Hike up

● Jack up

● Jump up

● Move up

● Raise high


Opposite/Antonyms of Hefting:

● Depress

● Receive

● Give

● Set down

● Appear

● Gather

● Collect

● Fall

● Descend

● Lower

● Drop

● Weaken

● Dispirit

● Demote

● Impose

● Lessen

● Decrease


Sentence/Example of Hefting:

Hefting it in his hand, and then swinging it about his head, Phil discovered that he had a weapon that would almost fell an ox.

“I brought some stuff,” the goth kid said as he paid for his ticket, hefting two huge duffel bags.

Well, two pounds easily, answered Old Crusty, shutting one eye and hefting his troutship knowingly.

He hitched the horse, and hefting the insensible man in his arms, staggered blindly into the timber.

Instead, he tiptoed out of the elevator hefting his gun, and came up silently behind the pair.

Hefting his mallet, Daoud watched the first match, also between two teams of fifth-year trainees.

He raised it, examining and hefting it with the judgment of an expert.

"Should think you were," mused the Colonel, hefting the lightened vessel.

There was much "hefting" and sometimes weighing of birds on the barn scales.