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white-hot
adj 3
Collocations
2VERB + WHITE-HOT
level, slogging
WHITE-HOT + NOUN
media, metal
Definitions
adj
1
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.
2
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[…]
3
Blazing.
Flames raced up the rows, blistering and charring and igniting ancient wood that erupted in a white-hot flare of heat.
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Synonyms
adjective — glowing white with heat
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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 tes
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a white-hot rage
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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 Ma
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