Question 1

What does "heat up" mean?

Accepted Answer

To make food or a substance hotter, or for something to become physically hotter.

Question 2

How do you use "heat up" in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

Can you heat up the leftover soup while I set the table?

Question 3

Is "heat up" formal or informal?

Accepted Answer

"heat up" is register-neutral — appropriate in both casual and formal contexts. Extremely versatile. Used literally for food, rooms, and weather, and figuratively for arguments, political situations, competitions, and relationships. In the figurative sense it is always intransitive ('things are heating up'). In the literal sense it can be both transitive ('heat up the soup') and intransitive ('the oven is heating up').

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