Japanese

Verb

温める ‎(transitive, ichidan conjugation, hiragana あたためる, romaji atatameru)

1. to warm; to heat
2. to nurse (a plan or idea); to keep an idea to oneself while considering it
   • 2001, 中堀浩和 Nakabori Hirokazu, ボードレール 魂の原風景 Baudelaire: The original scenery of the spirit, p216

     しかし彼 (かれ)はそれよりかなり前 (まえ)から散文詩 (さんぶんし)という新 (あたら)しいジャンルを心 (こころ)の中 (なか)で温 (あたた)め、実作 (じっさく)していたようである。

     Shikashi kare wa sore yori kanari mae kara sanbunshi to iu atarashii janru o kokoro no naka de atatame, jissaku shiteita yō de aru.

     However, it seems that Baudelaire since much earlier had been nursing in his heart a plan for the new genre called prose poetry and was working to realize it.

3. to renew (a relationship)
4. to take secretly; to swipe

Antonyms

• 冷 (ひ)やす ‎(hiyasu): to cool
• 冷 (さ)ます ‎(samasu): to cool

Related terms

• 温 (あたた)まる ‎(atatamaru): (v.intr.) get warm
• 温 (ぬく)い ‎(nukui): (adj.) warm

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