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Fires up (5)

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'fires up' is the definition.
('heat' can be a synonym of 'fire up')

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(Other definitions for heats that I've seen before include "Makes hot or warm" , "Eliminating rounds in a contest" , "Eliminating rounds of a race" , "Haste (anag.)" , "Warms up for the preliminary races" .)

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