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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
white-hot
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
white-hot anger
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A prickling sensation between my eyes made my nose run and white-hot adrenalin scalded the subcutaneous layer beneath my skin.
▪ Did a white-hot surge of anger and disillusion count as a mitigating circumstance, disturbing the balance of the mind?
▪ From the moment he appeared, bathed in white-hot light, Manson commanded the stage.
▪ Instinctively he rolled in the saddle and felt the white-hot stab of pain as something sharp scored a line across his shoulders.
▪ The Big Brother image evaporates in a white-hot explosion.
▪ They dislike each other with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.
▪ Will I now, in a white-hot rage, offer my services to the Allies?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
White-hot

White-hot \White"-hot`\, a. White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
white-hot

"heated to full incandescence," 1820, from white (adj.) + hot (adj.). White heat is from 1710; figurative sense of "state of intense or extreme emotion" first recorded 1839.

Wiktionary
white-hot

a. 1 hot enough to glow with a bright white light. 2 (context by extension English) fervid or zealous. 3 blazing. alt. 1 hot enough to glow with a bright white light. 2 (context by extension English) fervid or zealous. 3 blazing.

WordNet
white-hot
  1. adj. intensely zealous or fervid; "fierce white-hot loyalty"

  2. glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire" [syn: white]

Usage examples of "white-hot".

And the Thing Below rose up from the white-hot annulus around its pit.

Likewise, Parmenter drew a Fahrenheit pistol captured from one of the English officers and directed a white-hot spray of molten silver against the talos.

Anger, till now muffled by pain and shock and fear, sparked deep inside, a tiny spark not even so big as a firefly, but white-hot and located somewhere between her heart and her spine.

It spewed in a white-hot torrent over the lip of the waiting container and spattered the crew like a siege engine.

The gun-metal sky lightened and glowed red along the horizon until, like a thermic lance, the sun tore a white-hot hole in it.

Instead of weak squares and backward pawns all he saw when he looked at the board was the white-hot flare of a thermic lance liquefying all that steel and concrete over his head.

The two hundred and fifty beams shifted, re-formed, straddled and split, narrowed, widened, rippled in ribbons, broke into a thousand white-hot parallel lines, melted and revolved in interwoven rings like old-fashioned engine-turning, flung up to the zenith, made as if to descend and renew the torment, halted at the last instant, twizzled insanely round the horizon, and vanished, to bring back for the hundredth time darkness more shattering than their instantly renewed light over all Illinois.

She had dreamed about him the night before, rolling, clanking away from her down a straight old macadam road, out in the country, fields and hills in metallic cloudlight toward the end of the day, aware of exactly how many hours and minutes to dark, how many foot-candles left in the sky, bringing behind him like ducklings a line of lamps, generators, and beam projectors each on its little trailer rig, heading for his next job, the next carnival or auto lot, still wanting nothing but the deadly amps transmogrified to light, the great white-hot death-cold spill and flood and thrust, wherever he had to go, on whatever terms he had to take, to get to keep doing it.

A few bees hurled themF selves into the white-hot charcoal, exploding like little s Above, the bee cloud grew.

The smallest wind stroked over his aching nostrils as over the flues of a white-hot chimney.

But the sheer, raw, punch-in-the-gut impact of the Voicecast transmissions were what had truly awakened the white-hot fury sweeping across the entire explored multiverse.

Its intensity was a shattering, white-hot fulfillment that created exquisite aftershocks until slowly releasing them to a soothing gentleness.

Winged locomotives, their bellies fattened with the eggs of white-hot death, floated like maddened blowflies above a corpse-white city.

His smithies had built a bonfire against one of the bluffs and kept it white-hot with a bellows.

The sun had passed its white-hot zenith, and a kind golden light now swathed the banks of dessicated eucalyptus trees.