温あたためる

ichidan verb, transitive verb

keep to oneself; sit on; nurse; mull over

Only when written 温める

Figurative use with 温める: to hold onto an idea, plan, or feeling without revealing it, often with the nuance of developing it privately.

• 彼かれは新あたらしい事じ業ぎょうのアイデアを長ながい間あいだ温あたためていた。

  He had been nursing the idea for a new business for a long time.

• その計けい画かくはまだ誰だれにも話はなさずに温あたためておこう。

  Let's keep that plan to ourselves for now without telling anyone.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

renew (old friendship)

Only when written 温める

Used almost exclusively in the set phrase 旧交を温める (to renew an old friendship). Rare outside this collocation.

See also: 旧交を温める

• 同どう窓そう会かいで旧きゅう交こうを温あたためることができて嬉うれしかった。

  I was happy to be able to renew old friendships at the class reunion.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

take for oneself

Only when written 温める

Rare, possibly obsolete usage meaning to appropriate or pocket something. Modern Japanese would typically use 自分のものにする or similar.

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんでは、利り益えきを温あたためるという表ひょう現げんが見みられることがある。

  In old documents, one can sometimes see the expression 利益を温める, meaning to take the profit for oneself.