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Verb: turn up the heat
  1. Apply great or increased pressure
    "The Democrats turned up the heat on their candidate to concede the election";
    - turn up the pressure

Derived forms: turned up the heat, turning up the heat, turns up the heat

Type of: coerce, force, hale [archaic], pressure, squeeze

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