heated up
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1.7
- adjective
- And their hazelnut milk is amazingly good heated up in the microwave.
- heated up a pan
- heated up some water
- really heated up
Examples
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Thanks for heating up the roast, hon.
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l finished the spaghetti in the refrigerator, ate that last lobster tail and heated up a chicken pot pie.
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l thought you might like something you could just heat up.
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Energy is created any time water is heated up by the planet's core.
Blog text (26) -
Most people don't know how good it is heated up.
Fiction book (1999) -
In my sister's pot, she has some dark chocolate heated up in here because Molly can't have dairy.
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The soup was heated up quickly in the microwave, making it perfect for a cold day.
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After the sun rose, the metal on the playground equipment had heated up from the morning sun.
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She carefully heated up the leftover pasta on the stove before serving it for lunch.
Synonyms
53
1.0
Made warm by fire, electricity, or the sun
5
3.4
Very hot and making a hissing sound
3
1.0
Heated to a comfortable temperature for eating or touching
2
9.9
Warm and sometimes angry or excited
Antonyms
How Hot
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'made warm or hot' is directly derivable from combining 'heated' (warmed) with 'up' (indicating increase or intensification); 'up' here functions as an intensifying particle adding the sense of raising temperature. This is a regular compositional phrasal pattern in English and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The phrase heated up comes from the simple picture of putting food or a blanket near a stove or in a microwave so the heat makes it warm and you see steam or bubbles as it heats up. That's why it means 'become warm or hot', and it also helps you remember when a talk or argument 'heats up' and becomes more angry or excited.