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Synonyms & Antonyms of heat
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
depth of feeling
- informed the doctor, with considerable heat, that she had been kept waiting for three hours
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2
slang
a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder
- a private detective packing heat
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- derringer,
- forty-five
- (or .45),
- gat
- [slang],
- handgun,
- pistol,
- revolver,
- rod
- [slang],
- roscoe
- [slang],
- sidearm,
- six-gun,
- six-shooter,
- zip gun
- blunderbuss,
- breechloader,
- culverin,
- fieldpiece,
- firelock,
- flintlock,
- harquebus
- (or arquebus),
- matchlock,
- musket,
- rifle,
- shotgun,
- smoothbore,
- twenty-two
- (or .22)
3
slang
a body of officers of the law
- he thought he was so slick, but the heat was onto him in no time
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- constabulary,
- finest,
- force,
- fuzz,
- man,
- police,
- police force
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heat
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of heat (Entry 2 of 2)
to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree
- heat water for tea
- heat the oven to 350 degrees before you put the cake in
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