heat
/hit/ verb B1- To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). · I'll heat up the water.
- To become hotter. · There's a pot of soup heating on the stove.
- To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- To arouse, to excite (sexually). · The massage heated her up.
He/she/it heats · Past heated · Past participle heated · -ing form heating
Verb forms
- Base form
- heat
- He/she/it
- heats
- Past
- heated
- Past participle
- heated
- -ing form
- heating
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The mother keeps heated.
IT’S time Anne was in to do her sewing,” said Marilla, glancing at the clock and then out into the yellow August afternoon where everything drowsed in the heat.
A LION, fatigued by the heat of a summer’s day, fell fast asleep in his den.
The guests were still at table, and the heated and energetic conversation that prevailed betrayed the violent and vindictive passions that then agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given increased bitterness to the violence of party feeling.
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