ADJECTIVE
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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 -
worked up emotionally by anger or excitement
got really het up over the new taxes
was terribly het up over the killing of the eagle
he was suddenly het up about racing cars
How To Use het up In A Sentence
- Just in the name of dignity you will need to ratchet up the effort three more points, minimum. Times, Sunday Times
- He has made some bloomers in his time, from the failed bid for American General to his company's attempts to ratchet up his pay just as policyholders' bonuses were going in the other direction.
- Traveling with a nursing child can ratchet up the anxiety to unbearable levels.
- Raising the minimum wage would ratchet up real incomes in general.
- Conversely, something that initially seems a small and minor incident you might want to ratchet up the scale.
- A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
- Was this piece of paper reason to stop talking completely and ratchet up the rhetoric?
- was terribly het up over the killing of the eagle
- On any given afternoon, unstable breezes and moisture ratchet up cumulonimbus clouds in a whirlwind of updrafts and downdrafts that cause particles of rain, ice, and snow to collide.
- The debate should ratchet up awareness of the problem among members of the general public.
