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adj
Hot enough to glow with a bright white light.
The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.
Extremely fervid or zealous.
a white-hot rage
Swift’s catalog of generation-defining hits and canny marketing sense have helped her achieve a level of white-hot demand and media saturation not seen since the 1980s heyday of Michael Jackson and Madonna[…]
Blazing.
Flames raced up the rows, blistering and charring and igniting ancient wood that erupted in a white-hot flare of heat.