Meaning

3 senses

  1. To heat a liquid above its boiling point

  2. To heat a vapour above its saturation point

  3. To heat too much, to overheat.

    to superheat an oven

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Steam is water changed to a gaseous form by the application of heat. It may be saturated, superheated, dry or wet.

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Forms

superheats, superheating, superheated, superheated
Base formsuperheat · to superheat
3rd person singularsuperheats
Present participlesuperheating
Past simplesuperheated
Past participlesuperheated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysuperheat
he, she, itsuperheats

Past simpleLesson

all personssuperheated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave superheated
he, she, ithas superheated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill superheat

Word family

4 related words
Deriveddesuperheatresuperheatsuperheatablesuperheater

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
superficialC1superficiallyC1superfluousC2superfoodsuperherosuperhighwaysuperhuman

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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