Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Angry; vehement; impassioned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective characterized by great warmth and intensity of feeling. Opposite of
dispassionate, passionless . - adjective supplied with a mechanism for heating; -- of structures or devices. Opposite of
unheated .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
heat . - adjective very
agitated ,angry orimpassioned
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated')
- adjective marked by emotional heat; vehement
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Examples
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But Monday night, at the Ward 5 Democratic Committee straw poll, one of Moten's friends said Gray supporters were the aggressors in what he described as a heated dispute outside Michigan Park Christian Church.
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Aetna Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc. also found themselves in heated talks with hospitals that wanted big payment increases.
Michigan's Blue Cross Sued Over Pacts With Hospitals Thomas Catan 2010
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New ad released in heated battle for Obama's old senate seat
Steele talks immigration policy in meeting with Hispanic activists 2010
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Guliani backed Rubio Monday in heated comments directed at Crist and Obama.
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You would reject a situation that deprived you of the ability to engage in heated argument, said heated argument being of such character that you anticipate your opponent might be aroused in anger or other emotion to the point they would literally obtain an impulsive urge to kill you.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Major legal win for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus 2010
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Some of the men were offloading more equipment from the helicopter, others in heated discussions, and a couple of men stood quietly and alert, guarding the entrance to the station.
Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Hell is where you hang your hat | Station151 2009
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But then few other parts of the world (except the US and Canada and the odd bit of down under) are rich in heated chairlifts, perfectly groomed slopes and constellation-sized networks of pistes.
Skiing in Turkey: a long way from St Anton Gemma Bowes 2010
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THE BAD NEWS: Tyler Wilkerson, Darryl Merthie and Chris Lutz all graduate, Wilkerson added front line punch, Lutz heated from the outside and the versatile Merthie did a bit of everything.
Conference USA 2010
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After an indeterminate time, he regained consciousness to find four people in heated discussion by his now-ruined contraption.
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THE BAD NEWS: Tyler Wilkerson, Darryl Merthie and Chris Lutz all graduate, Wilkerson added front line punch, Lutz heated from the outside and the versatile Merthie did a bit of everything.
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