OVERHEATING Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

overheating

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present participle of overheat

as in heating

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By heating food using electromagnetic energy, microwave ovens made reheating and quick meal preparation easier, changing everyday cooking habits across much of the world.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, atmospheric carbon dioxide crept up by roughly 20 parts per million between 8,000 and 2,000 years ago, increasing the greenhouse effect that was heating the atmosphere up.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026

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When a pattern of warming waters hit the Gulf of Maine in the early 2010s, right whales started to abandon their feeding grounds.

— Ryan Green, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026
Forecasters said El Niño, the weather pattern warming parts of the Pacific, was likely to blame for the latest storm’s unusually heavy rainfall.

— Anna Wilder, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

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