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v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.
n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

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n.) An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.