as in heats
to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree
come over and toast your toes by the fire
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Recent Examples of toasts
Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 17 Jan. 2026
Also as part of Golden Week, Women’s Wear Daily toasts red carpet fashion while honoring Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson, Hailey Bieber, Kourtney Kardashian Barker and Giorgio Armani (with George Clooney accepting on behalf of the late designer).
—Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
As the night ends in the graveyard, the family toasts Ángel with mezcal.
—Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
Today, Olde Colony toasts the benne seeds in industrial ovens before folding them into the dough.
—Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
Verb
The couple toasts to their happy relationship.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 17 Jan. 2026
Also as part of Golden Week, Women’s Wear Daily toasts red carpet fashion while honoring Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson, Hailey Bieber, Kourtney Kardashian Barker and Giorgio Armani (with George Clooney accepting on behalf of the late designer).
—Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
As the night ends in the graveyard, the family toasts Ángel with mezcal.
—Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
Today, Olde Colony toasts the benne seeds in industrial ovens before folding them into the dough.
—Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toasts
Verb
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Raw milk has not been pasteurized — a process that heats milk to remove disease-causing germs.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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The 10-kW-capacity system heats a 1,000-cubic-meter space using hydrogen supplied by a local supplier.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Lawmakers from across the South, including members of Congress, would give eulogies in his honor.—
Jamelle Bouie,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Attendees surrounded a casket as speakers delivered eulogies — including actors portraying former President Abraham Lincoln and former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln.—
Sophia Compton,
FOXNews.com,
22 Dec. 2025
Noun
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An InStyle writer shares the surprisingly affordable perfume that earns her more compliments than her luxury fragrances.—
Melony Forcier,
InStyle,
10 Feb. 2026
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All compliments to cross-country skiing, especially as a sprinter.—
Rebecca Tauber,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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People can share condolences, tributes and memorial items for her at the Fishers Community Center.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
7 Feb. 2026
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The performance paid homage to Italian music, art and culture with tributes to composers, visual artists and films in a colorful spectacle.—
Emily Bogle,
NPR,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In Italy, academics like Ettore Romagnoli organized an authoritarian spectacle to celebrate two millennia of Horace, the priest Vittorio Genovesi wrote encomiums to Italian imperial ambitions in Rome’s Mare Nostrum, and the Latinist Luigi Illuminati who penned an epic dedicated to Il Duce.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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Most of WristbandGuy’s, by contrast, were cheeky encomiums to the pleasures of jacking off with your friends.—
Daniel Kolitz,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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