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heat up

heat up verb: to heat, to cause to become hotter.

Verb

heat up (third-person singular simple present heats up, present participle heating up, simple past and past participle heated up or (dialectal) heat up or (dialectal) het up)

  1. To heat, to cause to become hotter.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) To become busier or more exciting or intense.
  3. To infuriate or annoy (someone).

heat up meaning in Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi and Arabic

heat up in Malayalam

to heat up; to warm something
ചൂടാക്കുക cūṭākkuka

heat up in Kannada

ಬಿಸಿವಡೆ, ಬಿಸುರ್, ಬಿಸುರು, ಬಿಸುಪೇರು

heat up in Punjabi

to heat up, warm up, become hot or heated
ਤਪਣਾ tapṇā

heat up in Arabic

cause to become hotter
سَخَّنَ saḵḵana
More languagesFewer languages
heat up in Thai
อุ่น ùn

Forms of heat up

third-person singular presentheats up
present participleheating up
past participleheated up
pastheated up
past participle (dialectal)heat up
past (dialectal)heat up
past participle (dialectal)het up
past (dialectal)het up

Words formed from heat up

Questions about heat up

What does heat up mean?
Heat up means to heat, to cause to become hotter.
What is heat up in Malayalam?
Heat up in Malayalam is ചൂടാക്കുക (cūṭākkuka). See Heat up meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is heat up?
Heat up is a verb.
What is the past tense of heat up?
The past tense of heat up is heated up.

Words near heat up in the dictionary

  1. heat transfers
  2. heat treater
  3. heat treaters
  4. heat treatment
  5. heat treatments
  6. heat up
  7. heat vision
  8. heat wave
  9. heat waves
  10. heat-and-eat
  11. heat-labile

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: heat up (page history and authors); ചൂടാക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); heat up (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਤਪਣਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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