From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heat \Heat\ (h[=e]t), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Heated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heating}.] [OE. heten, AS. h[=ae]tan, fr. h[=a]t hot. See {Hot}.]
1. To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like.
Heat me these irons hot. --Shak.
2. To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood. --Shak.
3. To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
A noble emulation heats your breast. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. characterized by great warmth and intensity of feeling; as, a heated argument. Opposite of {dispassionate, passionless}. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, impassioned, perfervid, torrid. [WordNet 1.5]
2. supplied with a mechanism for heating; -- of structures or devices; as, a heated fishing cabin. Opposite of {unheated}. [WordNet sense 2] [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: made warm or hot ('het' is a dialectal variant of 'heated'); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty" [syn: {heated up}, {het}, {het up}]
2: marked by emotional heat; vehement; "a heated argument"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
161 Moby Thesaurus words for "heated": abandoned, ablaze, acrimonious, afire, angry, ardent, aroused, baked, baking, bitter, blistering, boiled, boiling, boiling over, braised, breathless, broiled, broiling, browned, burning, burning hot, burning with excitement, canicular, coddled, committed, cooked, cordial, curried, dedicated, delirious, deviled, devoted, devout, drunk, earnest, ebullient, electric-heated, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant, faithful, fanatic, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, fired, flaming, flushed, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fricasseed, fried, furious, gas-heated, glowing, grilled, grilling, hard-core, hearty, hectic, het, het up, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hot-air-heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotted up, impassioned, in earnest, in rut, indignant, inflamed, intense, intensified, intent, intent on, intoxicated, irate, ireful, keen, like a furnace, like an oven, lively, loyal, mad, madcap, oil-heated, on fire, oven-baked, overheated, overwarm, pan-broiled, parboiled, parching, passionate, perfervid, piping hot, poached, quickened, rechauffe, recooked, red-hot, reheated, resolute, roast, roasted, roasting, sauteed, scalding, scalloped, scorching, seared, searing, seething, serious, sexually excited, shirred, simmering, sincere, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, spirited, steam-heated, steamed, steaming, steamy, stewed, stimulated, stormy, sudorific, superheated, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, tempestuous, toasted, toasting, torrid, totally committed, unrestrained, vehement, vigorous, violent, warm, warmed, warmed up, warmed-over, waxy, white-hot, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, zealous
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