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WARM TO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warm to mean? 

WARM TO (verb)
  The verb WARM TO has 1 sense:

1. become excited aboutplay

  Familiarity information: WARM TO used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WARM TO (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Become excited about

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

He warmed to the idea of a trip to Antarctica

Hypernyms (to "warm to" is one way to...):

consider; deal; look at; take (take into consideration for exemplifying purposes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


 Context examples 


Come, drink a stoup of muscadine with me, mes anges, for my heart is warm to be among ye again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"She means vampire, not seaweed, but it doesn't matter. It's too warm to be particular about one's parts of speech," murmured Jo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“He hath good power of hatred. Couldst see by his cheek and eye that he is as bitter as verjuice. I warm to a man who hath some gall in his liver.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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