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Phrasal Verbs / PHRASA~1

Heat up

heat up & heats up heating up heated up heated up

1. heat ...up p.v. When something or someone makes something hotter, they heat it up.

Waiter, this soup is cold. Would you heat it up for me?

Sometimes the sun heats up the desert to 120 degrees.

heated up part.adj. After something or someone makes something hotter, it is heat­ed up.

Don't give the baby that cold bottle; give her this heated up one.

The spaghetti has been in the microwave for five minutes, so I'm sure it's heated up by now.

pay up

pay up & pays up paying up paid up paid up

1. pay up p.v. When you pay up, you pay all the money you owe to a person, bank, and so on, usually as a result of pressure to pay the money.

A guy from the collection agency called and told me I'd better pay up.

I wasn't surprised when the insurance company refused to pay up.

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paid up part.adj. After you are paid up, you have paid all the money you owe to a person, bank, and so on.

/ told the bill collector that he had made a mistake. I'm alt paid up.

Betty's VISA card is paid up, so there won't be any finance charge next month.