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WARM TO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does warm to mean?
• WARM TO (verb)
The verb WARM TO has 1 sense:
1. become excited about
Familiarity information: WARM TO used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become excited about
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Context example:
He warmed to the idea of a trip to Antarctica
Hypernyms (to "warm to" is one way to...):
consider; deal; look at; take (take into consideration for exemplifying purposes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
Come, drink a stoup of muscadine with me, mes anges, for my heart is warm to be among ye again.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"She means vampire, not seaweed, but it doesn't matter. It's too warm to be particular about one's parts of speech," murmured Jo.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“He hath good power of hatred. Couldst see by his cheek and eye that he is as bitter as verjuice. I warm to a man who hath some gall in his liver.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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