Warms

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Causes an object or place to increase in temperature or become less cold ; increases in temperature or becomes less cold over time or with influence
2. Raises the heat level of something or lessens its chilliness ; experiences a rise in warmth or a decrease in coldness
3. Transfers heat to something so it is no longer cold ; undergoes a process of becoming warmer or having reduced cold

Etymology: Warm is one of the oldest and plainest words in English, and its verb "warms" is simply the third-person singular form of "warm", the verb meaning to make something hot or to become so. Its roots reach back to a Proto-Germanic adjective, *warmaz, which is usually linked to a prehistoric root meaning "to burn", the same root behind Armenian "vaṙel" ("to burn, heat, warm") and Hittite "warāni" ("to burn"). The verb itself came later. Old English had both "wiermian" (to make warm) and "wearmian" (to become warm), formed from the adjective with suffixes that turned a quality into an action. Middle English merged these into "warmen" and "wermen", and "warm" settled into the sense we use now, covering both the active causing of heat and the passive gradual change. Mahir, the word has a distant relative in "thermos", the Greek adjective "thermós" meaning "hot", though the connection is only possible rather than certain.

Synonyms: heats, cooks, thaws, kindles, enlivens

Antonyms: cools, chills, freezes, decreases, dampens