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heaten

verb
/ˈhiːtən/

Etymology

Probably formed on the analogy of beat:beat:beaten by speakers who use heat or het for the simple past of heat (“to make hot”).

  1. derived from *keHy-✻ — “heat; hot”
  2. inherited from *haitį̄✻ — “heat”
  3. inherited from *haitī✻
  4. inherited from hǣtu
  5. inherited from hete
  6. suffixed as heaten — “heat + en”

Definitions

  1. To increase in heat

    To increase in heat; make or become hotter

    • In 1958, when the debate heatened, an elderly gentleman of excellent reputation stepped regally into a Senate hearing room in Washington prepared to testify against statehood for Alaska.
    • Feeling it, the man's cheeks heatened like those of the accosted youngster amidst the hanging coats and paired-up galoshes.

  2. past participle of heat

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA