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reheat en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɹəˈhiːt/
  • (US) audio
  • /ɹɪˈhiːt/ (rare)
  • /ɹiːˈhiːt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English heat English reheat From re- + heat.

Meanings

  1. (UK) An afterburner.
  2. (informal) The act of heating something again.
    • I gave the potatoes a reheat.

Forms

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reheats Number=Plur lexicographic

reheat en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɹəˈhiːt/
  • (US) audio
  • /ɹɪˈhiːt/ (rare)
  • /ɹiːˈhiːt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English heat English reheat From re- + heat.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To heat something after it has cooled off, especially previously cooked food (also in figurative senses).
    • I’m reheating some leftovers for dinner.
    • We already know each other’s views on these subjects; we speak in order to keep the silence away. It’s as though we reheat these issues in our very dear little copper saucepan—so battered and beloved—hoping by accident to stir in something new. 2003, Carol Shields, “Segue”, in The Collected Stories, London: Fourth Estate, published 2004, page 19:
    • […] the street of the Latin and Italian Poets, smelt only like the broth of reheated Coleworts. 1626, Trajano Boccalini, translated by William Vaughan, The New-Found Politicke, London: Francis Williams, Part 3, Chapter 17, p. 218:
    • […] this conversation reheated my strong sense of guilt and responsibility about Paul; the war and my adult life had banked down that fire but not quenched it. 1970, Robertson Davies, chapter 3, in Fifth Business, Penguin, published 1977, page 137:
    • “Blow up the forge again, for that shoe wants reheating.” 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in Rodney Stone, London: Smith, Elder, page 38:
    • 1649, uncredited translator, A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason, and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes, London, Part 5, p. 85, And if we examine how this heat is communicated to the other members, must we not avow that ’tis by means of the bloud, which passing the heart, reheats it self there, and thence disperseth it self thorow the whole body:
  2. (intransitive) To become hot again after having cooled off (also in figurative senses).
    • Top each pielet with a fried egg before garnishing with chives. […] Leftover pielets reheat beautifully. 2020, Erin Jeanne McDowell, The Book on Pie, page 313:
    • 2011 Helen Hollick, I am the Chosen King [UK title: Harold the King], Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 416, Dissension was reheating in southern Wales, but at least Wales could be quashed.
    • He put the soup on the stove to reheat.

Forms

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reheats Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
reheating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reheated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reheated Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

reheater · reheat nachos · reheatability · reheatable · reheat someone's nachos

Relateds

preheat

Translations (27)

fi lämmittää (heat something after it has cooled off) · gl requentar (heat something after it has cooled off) · fr réchauffer (heat something after it has cooled off) · th อุ่น (heat something after it has cooled off) · ja 再熱する (heat something after it has cooled off) · ca reescalfar (heat something after it has cooled off) · ru подогрева́ть (heat something after it has cooled off) · es recalentar (heat something after it has cooled off) · de erhitzen (heat something after it has cooled off) · unm wiluksi (heat something after it has cooled off) · de aufwärmen (heat something after it has cooled off) · ru разогре́ть (heat something after it has cooled off) · el αναθερμαίνω (heat something after it has cooled off) · gl requecer (heat something after it has cooled off) · it riscaldare (heat something after it has cooled off) · ka შეათბობს (heat something after it has cooled off) · vi hâm (heat something after it has cooled off) · cmn 再熱 /再热 (heat something after it has cooled off) · cmn 加熱 /加热 (heat something after it has cooled off) · ja 加熱する (heat something after it has cooled off) · cmn 熱 /热 (heat something after it has cooled off) · ja 再加熱する (heat something after it has cooled off) · pt requentar (heat something after it has cooled off) · ru разогрева́ть (heat something after it has cooled off) · ru подогре́ть (heat something after it has cooled off) · nrf rêcaûffer (heat something after it has cooled off) · pt reaquecer (heat something after it has cooled off)