HEATED UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heated up mean? 

• HEATED UP (adjective)
  The adjective HEATED UP has 1 sense:

1. made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated')

  Familiarity information: HEATED UP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEATED UP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated')

Synonyms:

heated; heated up; het; het up

Context example:

he was all het up and sweaty

Similar:

hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)

 Context examples 

Based on the Hubble data, the research team suggests that sunlight heated up the comet, causing jets of gas and dust to erupt from its surface.

(Hubble Takes Close-up Look at Disintegrating Comet, NASA)

Or it may be the result of the cold gas streaming onto the galaxy being rapidly compressed and heated up, preventing it from cooling down into star-forming clouds in the galaxy's center.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

By measuring the flowers with an infrared camera, they found that the east-facing sunflowers heated up more quickly in the morning — and also attracted five times as many pollinating insects.

(Sunflowers move from east to west, and back, by the clock, NSF)

As the material is ejected, it is heated up and smashes into the surrounding interstellar medium.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)