heatenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -iːtən

動詞

heaten (三人称単数 現在形 heatens, 現在分詞 heatening, 過去形および過去分詞形 heatened)

1. (transitive, intransitive, literally, figuratively) To increase in heat; make or become hotter
   • 1993, James A. Michener, Alaska:

     In 1958, when the debate heatened, an elderly gentleman of excellent reputation stepped regally into a Senate hearing room in Washington prepared to testify against statehood for Alaska.

   • 2007, David Russell, Dreality: A Story about Returning Home, page 353:

     Feeling it, the man's cheeks heatened like those of the accosted youngster amidst the hanging coats and paired-up galoshes.

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