warm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːm/
ipa: /wɔɹm/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: warms
form: warming
form: warmed
form: warmed
form: warme
Etymology: From Middle English warmen, wermen, wyrmen, from Old English wierman (“to make warm”) and wearmian (“to become warm”), from Proto-West Germanic *warmijan and *warmōn. Cognate with Dutch warmen, German wärmen, Swedish värma.
Senses: examples: text: Then shall it [an ash tree] be for a man to burn; for he will take thereof and warm himself.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 44 44-Chapter-15/# 15::
text: enough to warm, but not enough to burn
ref: 1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus:
glosses: To make or keep warm.
examples: text: My socks are warming by the fire.
text: The earth soon warms on a clear summer day.
glosses: To become warm, to heat up.
examples: text: Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: He is warming to the idea.
text: Her classmates are gradually warming to her.
info_templates: extra_data: words: to
expansion: [with to]
glosses: (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
examples: text: It is with no small degree of irony that I confess that immersing myself in an interdisciplinary project has warmed me to the seductions of disciplinary perspectives.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page xi:
glosses: To cause (someone) to favour (something) increasingly.
raw_tags: with to
examples: text: The speaker warms as he proceeds.
glosses: To become ardent or animated.
examples: text: 1717 November 20, Alexander Pope, letter to the Bishop of Rochester
there was a collection of all that had been written […] : I warmed my head with them.
text: Bright hopes, that erst the bosom warmed.
ref: 1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
examples: text: That is just the way God tells me this book is His Word. I read it, and it warms me and gives me light.
ref: 1886, Joseph Augustus Seiss, Right Life: Or, Candid Talks On Vital Themes:
glosses: To give emotional warmth to a person.
examples: text: Not bothering to turn around and not missing a mouthful, Myrtle comforted her with threats of "I'll warm your bottom"; "I'll turn you over to your dad"; "I'll lock you in the truck"; "I'll send for the bogey man" — all of which Darleen ignored […]
ref: 1945, The Atlantic, volume 176, page 94:
glosses: To beat or spank.
glosses: To scold or abuse verbally.
topics: computing
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synonyms: warm up
glosses: To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
synonyms: warm up
glosses: To send electronic mail from (a domain) to improve its reputation for mail sending.
Derived terms: like death warmed over
warm down
warm over
warm someone's heart
warm the bench
warm the cockles of someone's heart