heats up
Becomes more intense
Heats up means to become hotter or to make something hotter: Wait for the oven to heat up.
Figuratively, when a situation heats up, it intensifies or becomes more contentious: The debate heated up after the moderator's question.
Competition that heats up grows fiercer.
A romance that heats up becomes more passionate.
- exhilaratesCauses intense excitement
- intensifiesIncreases in strength
- boilHeat to bubbling point
- ignitesCauses to burn
- inflamesArouses intense emotion
competition · blaze · amplifies · accelerates · warming up · global warming · fire · burn · escalates · steam · combusts · rivalry · flare-up · energizes · builds · simmers · slow burn · clashes
heats upcools down
Reduces in temperature
cools off · chills · freezes · refrigerates · cools
heats upcools down
Reduces in temperature
calms down · de-escalates · settles down · dies down · winds down
heats upslows down
Reduces velocity progressively
cools off · winds down · stagnates · flatlines · grinds to a halt
heat, heated, heating, heater, reheat, heats, preheat, heaters, overheat