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Heat up   /hit əp/   Listen
Heat up

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






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"Heat up" Quotes from Famous Books



... right, since it certainly is impossible to live without water. The inhabitants of the floor where the stoves have fallen to pieces will insist on an immediate mending of the stoves, since they and their children are dying of cold because there is nothing on which they can heat up water or boil kasha for the children; and they, too, will be quite right. But in spite of all these just demands, which arrive in thousands from all sides, it is impossible to forget the most important of all, that the foundation is shattered and that the building ...
— The Crisis in Russia - 1920 • Arthur Ransome

... men, to run the canteens, to mend the clothes, to warm men's hearts via their stomachs, and to take their minds off the madness of war a little while. The Salvation Army would furnish them hot doughnuts in the trenches and heat up their courage. Actors and actresses were playing at all the big cantonments now. Later they would be going across to play in France—one-night stands, two a ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

... 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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