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Warming
//ˈwɔːmɪŋ// noun, verb, slang
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body wordnet
- 2 imparting heat wordnet
Noun
- 1 A small rise in temperature.
- 2 warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt wordnet
- 3 A beating; a thrashing. slang
"More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained."
- 4 the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of warm form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English warmyng, warmynge, from Old English wærming, wirming, equivalent to warm + -ing.
Etymology 2
From Middle English warminge, warmynge, from Old English wærmiġende, wermende, wyrmende, present participle of Old English wyrman, wirman (“to warm”), equivalent to warm + -ing.
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