| 单词 | hotting-up | 
| 释义 | hotting-upn.  An increase in tension, excitement, passion, etc.; an intensification. Cf. to hot up 3 at hot v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > 			[noun]		 > increase in intensity intention1603 intension1610 exasperation1633 exaltation1729 intensation1826 intensification1864 richening1881 hotting-up1940 1940    Times 25 Apr. 7/6  				There may have been other reasons for the adventure, such as to produce a general ‘hotting-up’ of the war before Great Britain and the British Empire were fully armed. 1959    Mod. Law. Rev. 22 702  				The hotting-up of the colour-bar controversy. 1978    Economist 7 Oct. 93  				Most international forecasters..feel that the hotting up of the economy has been postponed but not averted. 2007    Cape Times 		(Nexis)	 21 Nov. 10  				A hotting up of industrial strife. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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