English dictionary
warming
verbParts of speech
Definitions
verb
- To make or keep warm.
- To become warm, to heat up.
- To favour increasingly.
- To become ardent or animated.
- To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
- To beat or spank.
noun
- A small rise in temperature.
- A beating; a thrashing.
Example sentences
My socks are warming by the fire.
He is warming to the idea.
The speaker warms as he proceeds.