heats
/hiːts/ · noun
Meaning
- Thermal energy.
- The condition or quality of being hot.
- An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- An undesirable amount of attention.
- The police.
- To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
- To become hotter.
- To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- (plural noun) A period of hot weather.
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