hotter
1 Americanverb (used without object)
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to vibrate up and down; shake, totter, or rattle, as a plate on a shelf.
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to stammer.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of hotter
1790–1800; < early Dutch dialect hotteren, frequentative with -er- of Middle Dutch hotten to shake; akin to hotch
Example Sentences
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Well, the movement to change society so it stops heating up the world didn’t take, so now we need to figure out how to change society to deal with a hotter planet.
From Slate • Jul. 2, 2026
The temperature read 36C but the radiologist, from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, said it felt hotter.
From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026
Beneath it lies the asthenosphere, a hotter and more ductile layer that slowly flows over geologic time.
From Science Daily • Jun. 28, 2026
If the data turned hotter or colder, the rival drafts were a dress rehearsal for recasting policy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026
Of course I didn’t know, would probably never know—if the experts were right, I would soon be dead, burned in intense white clouds hotter than the sun.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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