hotting up
Increasing in intensity
Hotting up is British informal for becoming more intense, active, or exciting.
Competition hots up as rivals increase their efforts; a situation hots up when tension escalates.
The race is hotting up as we approach the finish line.
The phrase suggests a gradual increase in temperature as a metaphor for rising intensity or stakes.
Americans more typically say heating up.
- warmingIncreasing in temperature
- escalatingIncreasing by degrees
- simmeringCooking below boiling point
- smolderingBurning slowly, no flame
- clashingStriking with discord
tensions rising · battling · growing · heightening · amplifying · accelerating · intensifying · stoking · advancing · kindling · evolving · scorching · unfolding · surging · developing · rivaling · expanding · contending
hotting upcooling down
Gradual temperature reduction
dying down · calming down · winding down · subsiding · abating
hotting upcooling off
Gradual temperature reduction
winding down · de-escalating · defusing · resolving · settling
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