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单词 heaten
释义

heaten

English

Etymology

From heat + -en.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iːtən

Verb

heaten (third-person singular simple present heatens, present participle heatening, simple past and past participle heatened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, literally, figuratively) To increase in heat; make or become hotter
    • 1993, James A. Michener, Alaska:
      In 1958, when the debate heatened, an elderly gentleman of excellent reputation stepped regally into a Senate hearing room in Washington prepared to testify against statehood for Alaska.
    • 2007, David Russell, Dreality: A Story about Returning Home, page 353:
      Feeling it, the man's cheeks heatened like those of the accosted youngster amidst the hanging coats and paired-up galoshes.

Anagrams

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