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hot water

hot water noun: a dangerous situation; trouble.

Noun

hot water (uncountable)

  1. (figuratively, idiomatic) A dangerous situation; trouble.
    • Both students are in hot water from fighting.
  2. (figuratively, idiomatic) Fierce criticism.
    • The government's new proposal has landed them in hot water.
    • Zuckerberg got into hot water on Wednesday when he stated that Facebook wouldn’t necessarily remove Holocaust deniers from its platform because people “get things wrong” and because it’s not always possible to understand the deniers’ intent.2018 July 20, Johannes Breit, “We Banned Holocaust Deniers From Our History Subreddit. Here’s Why Facebook Should Do the Same.”, in Slate Magazine
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, water.

hot water meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

hot water in Tamil

hot water
வெந்நீர் vennīr, சுடுதண்ணீர் cuṭutaṇṇīr, சுடுநீர் cuṭunīr

hot water in Urdu

اذیت, مشکل, مصیبت, تکلیف

hot water in Malayalam

hot water
വെന്നീർ vennīṟ, ചൂടുവെള്ളം cūṭuveḷḷaṁ

hot water in Kannada

ಬಿಸಿನೀರ್, ಬಿಸಿನೀರು, ಬೆನ್ನೀರ್, ಬೆನ್ನೀರು, ಸುಡುನೀರು
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hot water in Sanskrit
तप्त taptá

Questions about hot water

What does hot water mean?
Hot water means a dangerous situation; trouble.
What is hot water in Tamil?
Hot water in Tamil is வெந்நீர் (vennīr), சுடுதண்ணீர் (cuṭutaṇṇīr), சுடுநீர் (cuṭunīr). See Hot water meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hot water?
Hot water is a noun.

Words near hot water in the dictionary

  1. hot walls
  2. hot war
  3. hot wars
  4. hot wash
  5. hot washes
  6. hot water
  7. hot water bag
  8. hot water bags
  9. hot water bottle
  10. hot water bottle rash
  11. hot water bottles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hot water (page history and authors); hot water (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ചൂടുവെള്ളം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); hot water (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); तप्त (Sanskrit) (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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