hot up
UK informal— phrasal verb with hot uk/hɒt/us/hɑːt/verb -tt-
If an event or situation hots up, it becomes more exciting and more things start to happen:
A few days before the elections, the pace began to hot up.
The competition is really hotting up now.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- increase
- increment
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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