heat up

heat up

English

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 more exciting or intense.

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: Ancient: θερμαίνω (thermaínō) Italian: scaldare (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Old Prussian: āistwei Russian: разогрева́ть (ru) impf (razogrevátʹ), разогре́ть (ru) pf (razogrétʹ), подогрева́ть (ru) impf (podogrevátʹ), подогре́ть (ru) pf (podogrétʹ) Scottish Gaelic: teasaich 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
• “heat up” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anagrams

• Pahute