verb/e.ʃo.fe/
to overheat; to excite, incite (imagination etc.); to inflame; to warm up
Inherited from Middle French eschauffer, from Old French eschaufer, eschalfer, from Vulgar Latin *excalfāre, from Latin excal(e)facere, from ex + cal(e)facere. Ultimately related to échauder (cognate and synonym of English "scald").