heat up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

heat up (third-person singular simple present heats up, present participle heating up, simple past and past participle heated up or (dialectal) het up)

1. To heat, to cause to become hotter.
2. (figurative, by extension, of a situation) To become busier or more exciting or intense.
3. To infuriate or annoy (someone).

Translations

cause to become hotter

• Arabic: سَخَّنَ (saḵḵana)
• Azerbaijani: qızdırmaq (az)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 整熱／整热 (zing² jit⁶)

  Mandarin: 加熱／加热 (zh) (jiārè)

• Finnish: lämmittää (fi)
• French: chauffer (fr)
• German: erhitzen (de), aufheizen (de)
• Greek: ζεσταίνω (el) (zestaíno)

  Ancient: θερμαίνω (thermaínō)

• Ingrian: varistaa, kuumentaa
• Italian: scaldare (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: ອຸ່ນ (ʼun)
• Old Prussian: āistwei
• Russian: разогрева́ть (ru) impf (razogrevátʹ), разогре́ть (ru) pf (razogrétʹ), подогрева́ть (ru) impf (podogrevátʹ), подогре́ть (ru) pf (podogrétʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: teasaich
• Thai: อุ่น (th) (ùn)
• Turkish: ısınmak (tr), ısıtmak (tr)

See also

• hot up, hot

Further reading

• “heat up”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “heat up”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “heat up”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Anagrams

• Pahute