Usually means: Increase temperature of an object.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word heat up:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. heat (something) up, heat up, heat up (something): Merriam-Webster
  2. heat up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heat up: Vocabulary.com
  4. heat up: Wiktionary
  5. heat up: Dictionary.com
  6. heat up: Rhymezone
  7. heat up: FreeDictionary.org
  8. heat up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. heat up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. heat up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heat up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heat up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. heat up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Heat-up, heat up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heat up)

▸ verb:  To heat, to cause to become hotter.
▸ verb:  (figurative, by extension, of a situation) To become busier or more exciting or intense.
▸ verb:  To infuriate or annoy (someone).

Similar:
hot up, screw up, heat, heaten, warm, warm up, turn up the heat, Hotten, bake, reheat, more...

Opposite:
cool down, chill, lower temperature

Phrases:
cheeks heat up, more...

Adjectives:
burning, warm, scalding, intumescent, warme, boiling, all-fired, blazing, scorching, incalescent, flame

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Similar:
hot up, screw up, heat, heaten, warm, warm up, turn up the heat, Hotten, bake, reheat, more...

Opposite:
cool down, chill, lower temperature

Phrases:
cheeks heat up, more...

Adjectives:
burning, warm, scalding, intumescent, warme, boiling, all-fired, blazing, scorching, incalescent, flame



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