Meaning

3 senses

  1. To heat up:

    (Ireland, UK)To increase in temperature.

    Wait for the water to hot up before adding the salt.

    I hotted up my scones.

  2. (Ireland, UK, informal)To become more heated.

    The choice of a new leader hots up.

    Bayern München hotted up the title race with a win.

  3. (Ireland, UK, informal)To make or become more sexually appealing, enticing or exciting.

More definitions
  • make more intense
  • gain heat or get hot
  • make more powerful

Examples

2 sentences

  1. The long spell of hot weather withered up the plants.

    deDie lange Hitzedauer ließ die Pflanzen vertrocknen. — Esperantostern

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  2. There could have been a serious accident on the stairs while you were carrying boiling-hot stew up them.

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Forms

hots up, hotting up, hotted up, hotted up
Base formhot up · to hot up
3rd person singularhots up
Present participlehotting up
Past simplehotted up
Past participlehotted up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhot up
he, she, ithots up

Past simpleLesson

all personshotted up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hotted up
he, she, ithas hotted up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hot up

Synonyms

7 synonyms
to increase in temperature:heat upwarm up
to make more sexually appealing:sex up
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
hotA1hotbedhotcakehotelA1hotelierC2
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