Hot up and Overheat

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Hot up verb - To cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree.

Usage example: with a silky Southern drawl, the waitress asked, “Want me to hot up that pie?”

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Overheat and hot up are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Overheat" instead a verb "Hot up".

Overheat verb - Get excessively and undesirably hot.

Usage example: The car engines overheated

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Hot up and overheat are semantically related. You can use "Hot up" instead a verb "Overheat".

Nearby Words: overheated, overheating

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