heat-treating

Definition of heat-treatingnext
present participle of heat-treat

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for heat-treating
Verb
  • It’s then flaked into a pot of steaming pasta and spinach and tossed with a couldn’t-be-quicker cream sauce.
    Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Can drinking a cup of steaming hot water improve your digestion and keep things moving along in your gastrointestinal (GI) tract?
    Julia Ries Wexler, Outside, 4 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The melter sits over a sewer line, idling while heating the snow to thirty-eight degrees, barely above freezing, and drips the water directly into a drain.
    Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Russia launched 450 drones and more than 60 missiles at Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, according to Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, who said the strikes had left 1,170 apartment buildings in Kyiv without heating.
    Aidan Stretch, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • In lieu of complicated controls and systems, these games seized on the high-energy gameplay of intense dogfighting moments, boiling it down into arcadey combat that was more accessible to the masses.
    Alan Bradley, Space.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • And Plaschke’s blood-boiling need to make the grand statement way before anything is certain doesn’t prove the Plaschke Curse is alive and well?
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
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“Heat-treating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heat-treating. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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