warm
/wɔɹm/ verb B1- To make or keep warm.
- To become warm, to heat up. · My socks are warming by the fire.· The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
- (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly. · He is warming to the idea.· Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
- To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
- To become ardent or animated. · The speaker warms as he proceeds.
- To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
- To give emotional warmth to a person.
- To beat or spank.
He/she/it warms · Past warmed · Past participle warmed · -ing form warming
Verb forms
- Base form
- warm
- He/she/it
- warms
- Past
- warmed
- Past participle
- warmed
- -ing form
- warming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Into my warm and cheerful room.
To warm my frozen bones a bit;
He was always warmed by genuine admiration—the characteristic of the real artist.
And most people when they put a pie in the oven to warm up for dinner take it out and eat it when it gets hot instead of leaving it to be burned to a crisp.
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