heated

1. 1
   adjective

   Made warm or hot, usually by a machine, fire, or heater.

   Like a blanket that has been warmed up before you climb into bed.

   The heated pool stayed warm even in the middle of winter.

   We sat in a heated room while the snow fell outside.

   Oppositeunheated, cooled

2. 2
   adjective

   Full of strong anger or excitement.

   Like water that gets hotter and hotter until it nearly boils over.

   They got into a heated argument about money.

   The meeting turned heated when the topic of layoffs came up.

   Similarangry, fierce, impassioned, vehement, intense

   Oppositecalm, civil, amicable

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3. 3
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of heat. Use this form for something that already happened or was done.

   She heated the soup on the stove for lunch.

   They heated the room before the guests arrived.

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