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heaten en · VERB · etymology 1

From heat + -en.

(ambitransitive, figuratively, qualifier:literal) To increase in heat; make or become hotter
- In 1958, when the debate heatened, an elderly gentleman of excellent reputation stepped regally into a Senate hearing room in Washington prepared to testify against statehood for Alaska. 1993, James A. Michener, Alaska:
- Feeling it, the man's cheeks heatened like those of the accosted youngster amidst the hanging coats and paired-up galoshes. 2007, David Russell, Dreality: A Story about Returning Home, page 353:

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heatens	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
heatened	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
heatened	Tense=Past	lexicographic
heatening	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic

Probably formed on the analogy of beat:beat:beaten by speakers who use heat or het for the simple past of heat (“to make hot”).

(form-of, nonstandard, participle, past, rare) past participle of heat
form of heat
- The coincidence of the fact that Sensex crossing 20,000 level both in late 2007 and in 2010, and also both the years seeing the largest issues namely Reliance Power (in 2007) and Coal India (in 2010), has heaten up the discussion regarding the parallels. 2010 October 20, Jagannadham Thunuguntla, It was Cyclone in 2007, its just Drizzle in 2010 - Oct, 2010, SSRN, published 30 January 2011, →DOI:

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hetten		alternative, dialectal	lexicographic