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Heat up   /hit əp/   Listen
Heat up

verb
1.
Gain heat or get hot.  Synonyms: heat, hot up.  Antonym: cool.
2.
Make hot or hotter.  Synonym: heat.  "Heat the water on the stove"  Antonym: cool.
3.
Make more intense.  Synonyms: hot up, screw up.






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"Heat up" Quotes from Famous Books



... nerves, he said, to see anything stop. Speed and efficiency at any cost was his motto, and the result was that he had gathered about him men who were willing to keep running under forced draft, even if it did heat up the bearings. ...
— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney

... I can send them?" asked Mrs. Horton. "Harriet will heat up some soup and you can carry it in the ...
— Sunny Boy and His Playmates • Ramy Allison White

... hot, dry the slices of potato with a cloth, put them into the frying basket and plunge them into the fat. When they are colored, take the basket out, let the fat heat up again to a slightly higher temperature, and re-plunge the basket, so that the slices become quite crisp. Serve ...
— The Belgian Cookbook • various various

... is the special treatment it gets, sir," he replied. "I usually bruise it in the mortar before cooking, without breaking up the fibre too much, and then I heat up the little cupel furnace to about 600 C, and put the ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman

... called, of the onset of incurable diseases like cancer, Bright's disease or apoplexy. The commonly accepted view that the heat of the body depends upon the food, and that people eat blubber in the Arctic and Antarctic regions to keep the bodily heat up, is one of the chief causes for neglect of the study of subnormal temperature. And it is quite surprising that physiologists have not thought it necessary to explain why nature has provided sugar and palm oil and cocoa-nut oil and ground-nut oil in the tropical regions, ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various



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