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HEAT UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make more intense
Example:
Emotions were screwed up
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "heat up" is one way to...):
compound; deepen; heighten; intensify (make more intense, stronger, or more marked)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make hot or hotter
Example:
heat the water on the stove
Synonyms:
heat; heat up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "heat up" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Cause:
heat; heat up; hot up (gain heat or get hot)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heat up"):
crisp; crispen; toast (make brown and crisp by heating)
scald (heat to the boiling point)
soak (heat a metal prior to working it)
calcine (heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces)
preheat (heat beforehand)
overheat (make excessively or undesirably hot)
scorch; sear (make very hot and dry)
bake; broil (heat by a natural force)
reheat (heat again)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They heat up the water
Sense 3
Meaning:
Gain heat or get hot
Example:
The room heated up quickly
Synonyms:
heat; heat up; hot up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "heat up" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heat up"):
overheat (get excessively and undesirably hot)
fry (be excessively hot)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
The water heat ups
