superheated

superheated

1. simple past and past participle of superheat

superheated (comparative more superheated, superlative most superheated)

1. (physics) heated above the critical point
2. Heated above the boiling point
   • 2004, Ben Pester, Through the Land of Fire: Fifty-Six South, page 231:

     The only through-draught came from the two Dorade ventilators in the heads compartment but by the time the air from them reached us on our bunks it felt superheated.

3. (figuratively) exceedingly intense or emotional
   • 2009, Francisco J. Ricardo, Literary Art in Digital Performance, page 182:

     These hyperliterary historical misshifts centered in the superheated technological and cultural engine of the US-centric English-speaking imperium.

• non-superheated, nonsuperheated, unsuperheated

• desuperheat