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Definition of "white-hot" []

  • So hot as to glow with a bright white light. (adjective)
  • Zealous; fervid. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "white-hot" in a sentence
  • "Scott, Kevin, and myself made the Intercontinental title white-hot."
  • "These interconnected issues involving nonmarital sex, homosexuality, pornography, and abortion had become white-hot during the long Sixties."
  • "And the way she goes about telling the stories – at the last minute, in a white-hot blur, with tears and curses and glasses of wine at 3 a.m. – is NOT the way the rule books tell you to go about this whole fiction career thing."