as in heated
to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree
with a silky Southern drawl, the waitress asked, "Want me to hot up that pie?"
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Verb
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The rivalry between Alcaraz and Sinner has been especially heated this year.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
7 Sep. 2025 -
Its test canister does not contain nuclear waste, but is heated to mimic containers that do, allowing for easier inspections of how the canister holds up without the worries of radiation.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
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Manabe and colleagues found that the Southern Ocean warmed very slowly when atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increased because the surface waters were continually being replenished by these upwelling abyssal waters, which hadn’t yet warmed.—
Nadir Jeevanjee,
The Conversation,
3 Sep. 2025
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Switzerland has warmed at a rate twice the global average.—
Daniel A. Gross,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Hotted (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotted%20%28up%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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