turn up the heat

1. 1.

   apply great or increased pressure

   “The Democrats turned up the heat on their candidate to concede the election”

   Synonymsturn up the pressure

   Broadercoerce

Questions about turn up the heat

What does turn up the heat mean?

turn up the heat means "apply great or increased pressure".

What is another word for turn up the heat?

Close synonyms include turn up the pressure. 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 turn up the heat a common word?

turn up the heat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.