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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HE'ATED, pp. Made hot; inflamed; exasperated.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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, heated up, het, het up]
2: marked by emotional heat; vehement; "a heated argument"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1886 marked by anger or passion <a heated argument> • heatedly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 (of a person, discussions, etc.) angry; inflamed with passion or excitement. 2 made hot. Derivatives: heatedly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Heat Heat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heated; p. pr. & vb. n. Heating.] [OE. heten, AS. h?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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A heated discussion or quarrel is one where the people involved are angry and excited. It was a very heated argument and they were shouting at each other... ? calm ADJ 2. If someone gets heated about something, they get angry and excited about it. You will understand that people get a bit heated about issues such as these... ADJ: v-link ADJ about/over n • heatedly The crowd continued to argue heatedly about the best way to tackle the problem. ADV: ADV with v

Moby Thesaurus

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