Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective So hot as to glow with a bright white light.
- adjective Zealous; fervid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Heated to full incandescence so as to emit all the rays of the visible spectrum, and hence appear a dazzling white to the eye. See
radiation and spectrum, and red heat, white heat (under heat).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Hot enough toglow with abright white light . - adjective by extension
fervid orzealous . - adjective
Blazing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective intensely zealous or fervid
- adjective glowing white with heat
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Examples
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Scott, Kevin, and myself made the Intercontinental title white-hot.
heartbreak &triumph Trisia Tomanelli 2005
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Scott, Kevin, and myself made the Intercontinental title white-hot.
heartbreak &triumph Trisia Tomanelli 2005
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These interconnected issues involving nonmarital sex, homosexuality, pornography, and abortion had become white-hot during the long Sixties.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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The Destroyer of Life pulled a magma bow from its back and fitted a white-hot shaft to it.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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A white-hot shock wave swept out, leveling any beast it struck.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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And the way she goes about telling the stories – at the last minute, in a white-hot blur, with tears and curses and glasses of wine at 3 a.m. – is NOT the way the rule books tell you to go about this whole fiction career thing.
2010 May « 2010
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And the way she goes about telling the stories – at the last minute, in a white-hot blur, with tears and curses and glasses of wine at 3 a.m. – is NOT the way the rule books tell you to go about this whole fiction career thing.
A Writer’s Vices « 2010
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At its feet lay four burned-out arrows, and at its back boiled a white-hot caldera—the source of its power.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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My heart started to pound in earnest, thrumming white-hot terror through my veins.
Ominous Kate Brian 2011
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The white-hot magma cooled to red-hot, and then to brown.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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