heat up

chauffer, réchauffer

Rendre quelque chose plus chaud.

En anglais simple : To make something warmer or hot.

• Heat up the soup.
• I heated the leftovers up in the microwave.
• Can you heat up some water for tea?

Comment l'utiliser : heat something up (Heat the milk up gently.)

Synonymes : heat, warm up

Contraires : cool

Expressions courantes : heat up soup, heat up something

s’intensifier, s’échauffer

Devenir plus animé, passionnant ou difficile à mesure que les émotions ou la compétition se renforcent.

En anglais simple : To become more active, exciting, or difficult as feelings or competition grow stronger.

• The race is heating up.
• The debate heated up after his speech.
• Competition will heat up as more companies enter the market.

Synonymes : intensify, hot up

Contraires : ease

Expressions courantes : heat up quickly, heat up again

énerver, irriter

Mettre quelqu’un en colère ou l’agacer.

En anglais simple : To make someone angry or annoyed.

• His rude reply heated me up.
• The repeated delays had heated everyone up.
• Why does that small mistake heat you up so much?

Comment l'utiliser : heat someone up (Those unfair accusations really heated him up.)

Synonymes : anger, annoy, infuriate

Contraires : calm

Expressions courantes : heat up someone, heat someone up