superheated

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of superheat

adj

  1. (physics) heated above the critical point
  2. Heated above the boiling point
    The only through-draught came from the two Dorade ventilators in the heads compartment but by the time the air from them reached us on our bunks it felt superheated. 2004, Ben Pester, Through the Land of Fire: Fifty-Six South, page 231
  3. (figurative) exceedingly intense or emotional
    These hyperliterary historical misshifts centered in the superheated technological and cultural engine of the US-centric English-speaking imperium. 2009, Francisco J. Ricardo, Literary Art in Digital Performance, page 182

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