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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having been warmed up
Example:
a cup of warmed milk
Classified under:
Similar:
warm (having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb warm
Context examples:
A procedure in which a warmed solution containing anticancer drugs is used to bathe, or is passed through the blood vessels of, the tissue or organ containing the tumor.
(Chemotherapeutic Hyperthermic Perfusion, NCI Dictionary)
The prospect of four thousand a-year, in addition to his present income, besides the remaining half of his own mother's fortune, warmed his heart, and made him feel capable of generosity.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
William is dead!—that sweet child, whose smiles delighted and warmed my heart, who was so gentle, yet so gay!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Maud saw that I had achieved a solution, and her eyes warmed sympathetically.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
As climate warmed, glaciers receded, leaving Yosemite-like valleys and similar geologic features behind.
("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)
"Das ist gut!" "Die Engel-kinder!" cried the poor things as they ate and warmed their purple hands at the comfortable blaze.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
His heart was warmed, his fancy fired, and he felt the highest respect for a lad who, before he was twenty, had gone through such bodily hardships and given such proofs of mind.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The membrane allows water from inside to evaporate out when warmed by sunlight.
(Artificial Leaves Convert CO2 to Fuel 10 Times More Efficient Than Nature, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
At twelve o'clock the southern horizon was warmed by the unseen sun; and then began the cold grey of afternoon that would merge, three hours later, into night.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows were thick with the ice crystals.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
