heaten

present singular third person heatens · participle present heatening · participle past heatened · past heatened

1. ambitransitivefigurativelyliteralTo increase in heat; make or become hotter

   Feeling it, the man's cheeks heatened like those of the accosted youngster amidst the hanging coats and paired-up galoshes.

   2007, David Russell, Dreality: A Story about Returning Home, page 353

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   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.

   1993, James A. Michener, Alaska

alternative dialectal hetten

1. nonstandardparticiplepastrarepast participle of heat

   The coincidence of the fact that Sensex crossing 20,000 level both in late 2007 and in 2010, and also both the years seeing the largest issues namely Reliance Power (in 2007) and Coal India (in 2010), has heaten up the discussion regarding the parallels.

   2010 October 20, Jagannadham Thunuguntla, It was Cyclone in 2007, its just Drizzle in 2010 - Oct, 2010, SSRN, published 30 January 2011, →DOI