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Verb: heat up
  1. Gain heat or get hot
    "The room heated up quickly"
    - heat, hot up [Brit]
     
  2. Make hot or hotter
    - heat
     
  3. Make more intense
    - hot up [Brit], screw up

Derived forms: heated up, heating up, heats up

Type of: alter, change, change state, compound, deepen, heighten, intensify, modify, turn

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heat of transformation
heat of vaporisation
heat of vaporization
heat prostration
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heated
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heatedly
heater
heath
Heath
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