Verbs that start with H

When you break something into two roughly equal-sized pieces, you halve it.

You harvest a crop when it is ripe by picking off all the ripe fruit, grain or leaves.
The name given to a large amount of a crop that you have just harvested is also called a harvest.

You heave when you put a lot of effort into pulling or raising something. The sailor in the picture is heaving a rope.

You hide when you don't want anyone to know where you are. A game where you take turns hiding and looking for other people is called hide and seek or hide and go seek.
The cat in the picture is hiding inside the rolled up mat.

You hire something or someone when you pay some money for them for a time. People are generally hired to work for you or to complete a particular task. When you hire something, you hire it to use it for a while and then you return it to where you hired it from.
The picture is of some bicycles for hire.

You hold something when it is securely in your hands. You might also hold something by supporting it, for example "that post is holding the roof up".

You hug someone when you wrap your arms around someone else and squeeze them. You usually hug someone you like, or people in your family.
There are lots of types of hugs, with different names. Like cuddle, snuggle, bear hug, or even group hug, when there is more than two people hugging at once.

You hypnotize someone by putting them into a state where you have strong influence or even full control over them.