hot up

verb

1. gain heat or get hot

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The room heated up quickly

• Syn: ↑heat, ↑heat up

• Ant: ↑cool (for: ↑heat)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑heatable (for: ↑heat), ↑heat (for: ↑heat), ↑heating (for: ↑heat)

• Hypernyms: ↑change state, ↑turn

• Hyponyms: ↑overheat, ↑fry

• Verb Frames:

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Something ——s

2. make more intense

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Emotions were screwed up

• Syn: ↑heat up, ↑screw up

• Hypernyms: ↑intensify, ↑compound, ↑heighten, ↑deepen

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

3. make more powerful

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he souped up the old cars

• Syn: ↑soup up, ↑hop up

• Hypernyms: ↑modify

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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intransitive verb

1. : to grow hot, lively, or exciting

the gossip began to hot up — Life

2. : to speed up

the air raids began to hot up about the beginning of February — George Orwell

transitive verb

1. : arouse, annoy

getting him all hotted up — Lord Beaverbrook

2. : to make livelier or speedier

a protest against … the genteel hotting up of Shakespearean productions robbed of all poetry — Stephen Spender

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hot up (informal)

To increase in excitement, energy, performance, etc (hotted-upˈ adjective)

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Main Entry: ↑hot

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ˌhot ˈup [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they hot up he/she/it hots up present participle hotting up past tense hotted up past participle hotted up] british informal phrasal verb

to become more lively or exciting

The debate on electoral reform hotted up yesterday.

Thesaurus: to become, or to make something more interesting or exciting_synonym

Main entry: hot

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hot up (or hot something up)

Brit., informal become or make hot

he hotted up the flask in Daisy's hand

■ become or make more active, lively, or exciting

the championship contest hotted up

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hot up [phrasal verb]

Brit : to become more intense or lively

The controversy has hotted up [=heated up] again.

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Main Entry: ↑hot

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ˌhot ˈup derived

(BrE) (also ˌheat ˈup NAmE, BrE) (informal) to become more exciting or to show an increase in activity

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Things are really hotting up in the election campaign.

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The title race is certainly hotting up.

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The pace is hotting up.

Main entry: ↑hot_derived