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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One iron was heating on a small gas stove; the other was being pushed vigorously back and forth to make the desirable crease that would be seen later on extending in straight lines from Mr.
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.
Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly anxious to do all she could, kept up a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of croupy babies.
His first thought was that Oz had by accident caught on fire and was burning up; but when he tried to go nearer, the heat was so intense that it singed his whiskers, and he crept back tremblingly to a spot nearer the door.
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