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to reheat

to reheat

16 1.0
Make cooked food or drink warm again
  • verb
  • /riːˈhiːt/
translation icon : recalentar
  • You can reheat the leftovers in the microwave for a quick meal.

Is there not something to do with reheating fats and oils?

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Examples

  • I'm now going to go to reheat some leftover pasta.

  • I'm going to reheat some of the leftover pasta.

  • You want me to reheat it for you?

  • I'll just go reheat the chicken.

  • I don't want to have to reheat dinner.

  • Do you want me to reheat you some chicken-fried steak?

  • Daniel smoked a whole chicken for me on Sunday, so we reheated some of that.

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  • So I put the whole batch back on the stove and reheated it.

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  • I take the frozen gravy out of the freezer the night before and reheat it before the meal.

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  • Leftover blackened or seared fish should be kept cold and reheated thoroughly the next day.

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Synonyms

to rewarm
vsto reheat
1 2.5

To make warm again after becoming cold

focuses especially on previously cooked food rather than any cooled item
to warm over
vsto reheat
3.4

To heat cooked food again until it is hot

is used more broadly for items beyond cooked food

Antonyms

256 1.0

To make or become less warm

How Hot

to scald
14 4.8
to boil
269 1.0
to heat
298 1.0
to reheat
16 1.0
to warm
488 1.0

Surface Forms

reheat infinitive
reheated past
reheated past participle
reheating present participle
reheats third person singular

Morphology

reheat = heat (transparent) = re + heat

This is standard productive prefixation: 're-' adds the meaning 'again' to the verb 'heat'.

Etymology

Reheat is built from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and the word heat meaning 'make warm', so reheat means to 'heat again'. Think of common words with re- like redo or replay to help you remember. That's why you reheat food when it has cooled.