heat up

Questions about heat up

What does heat up mean?

heat up means "gain heat or get hot". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for heat up?

Close synonyms include heat, hot up, heat, hot up, screw up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heat up a common word?

heat up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.