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Newguest Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Let the inmate be/heaving

Hi

In prison one of the guards hit the prisoner in the gut with a billy club. The inmate threw up and fell to the floor.

Then the guard: paused (he was talking all the time) to let the inmate be wrenched back to his feet, still heaving and gasping for air.

Does it mean someone helped the inmate to get back on his feet or he did it himself?

Does "heaving" here mean that he was "breathing heavily"?
  

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Does it mean someone helped the inmate to get back on his feet or he did it himself? The other guards helped him to his feet. He is described as being "one of the guards" .

— LouiseT

  • Does it mean someone helped the inmate to get back on his feet or he did it himself?
  • The other guards helped him to his feet.
  • He is described as being "one of the guards" .
  • Does "heaving" here mean that he was "breathing heavily"?
  • I think this means he was still vomiting or at least recovering from vomiting.
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Does it mean someone helped the inmate to get back on his feet or he did it himself? The other guards helped him to his feet. He is described as being "one of the guards" .

Does "heaving" here mean that he was "breathing heavily"? I think this means he was still vomiting or at least recovering from vomiting.
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