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hot stuff |
hot stuffed tomato |
hot toddy |
hot tub |
hot under the collar |
hot up
| hot war
| hot water
| hot water plant
| hot weather
| hot-air balloon
hot up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb hot up has 3 senses
- hot up(v = verb.change) heat, heat up - gain heat or get hot; "The room heated up quickly" is one way to change state, turn
- hot up(v = verb.change) heat up, screw up - make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up" is one way to compound, deepen, heighten, intensify
- hot up(v = verb.change) hop up, soup up - make more powerful; "he souped up the old cars" is one way to modify
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THESAURUS
hot up
accelerate, agent provocateur, aggravate, amplify, annoy, augment, beef up, blow up, build up, chafe, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, cook, deepen, deteriorate, double, electric-heat, embitter, enhance, enlarge, exacerbate, exaggerate, exasperate, fire, fire up, foment, gas-heat, heat, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, increase, intensify, irritate, jazz up, key up, magnify, make acute, make complex, make worse, mull, overheat, preheat, provoke, ramify, recook, redouble, reheat, reinforce, sharpen, soup up, sour, steam, step up, stoke up, strengthen, superheat, tepefy, triple, warm, warm over, warm up, whet, worsen
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