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Vinony

reheat

verb

  1. to heat again
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈhiːt/ / /ɹɪˈhiːt/ / /ɹəˈhiːt/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English heat English reheat From re- + heat.

  1. An afterburner.
  2. The act of heating something again.

    “I gave the potatoes a reheat.”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English heat English reheat From re- + heat.

  1. To heat something after it has cooled off, especially previously cooked food (also in figurative senses).

    “I’m reheating some leftovers for dinner.”

    “[…] the street of the Latin and Italian Poets, smelt only like the broth of reheated Coleworts.”

  2. To become hot again after having cooled off (also in figurative senses).

    “He put the soup on the stove to reheat.”

    “2011 Helen Hollick, I am the Chosen King [UK title: Harold the King], Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Part 3, Chapter 7, p. 416, Dissension was reheating in southern Wales, but at least Wales could be quashed.”