reheat

plural reheats

1. UKaeronauticsAn afterburner.
2. informalThe act of heating something again.

   I gave the potatoes a reheat.

present singular third person reheats · participle present reheating · participle past reheated · past reheated

1. transitiveTo heat something after it has cooled off, especially previously cooked food (also in figurative senses).

   I’m reheating some leftovers for dinner.

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   […] the street of the Latin and Italian Poets, smelt only like the broth of reheated Coleworts.

   1626, Trajano Boccalini, translated by William Vaughan, The New-Found Politicke, London: Francis Williams, Part 3, Chapter 17, p. 218

   1649, uncredited translator, A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason, and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes, London, Part 5, p. 85, And if we examine how this heat is communicated to the other members, must we not avow that ’tis by means of the bloud, which passing the heart, reheats it self there, and thence disperseth it self thorow the whole body:

   “Blow up the forge again, for that shoe wants reheating.”

   1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in Rodney Stone, London: Smith, Elder, page 38

   […] this conversation reheated my strong sense of guilt and responsibility about Paul; the war and my adult life had banked down that fire but not quenched it.

   1970, Robertson Davies, chapter 3, in Fifth Business, Penguin, published 1977, page 137

   We already know each other’s views on these subjects; we speak in order to keep the silence away. It’s as though we reheat these issues in our very dear little copper saucepan—so battered and beloved—hoping by accident to stir in something new.

   2003, Carol Shields, “Segue”, in The Collected Stories, London: Fourth Estate, published 2004, page 19

2. intransitiveTo become hot again after having cooled off (also in figurative senses).

   He put the soup on the stove to reheat.

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   2011 Helen Hollick, I am the Chosen King [UK title: Harold the King], Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 416, Dissension was reheating in southern Wales, but at least Wales could be quashed.

   Top each pielet with a fried egg before garnishing with chives. […] Leftover pielets reheat beautifully.

   2020, Erin Jeanne McDowell, The Book on Pie, page 313