pump up
verb
pumped up; pumping up; pumps up
1
a
: to fill with enthusiasm or excitement
b
: to fill with or as if with air : inflate
2
Synonyms
Examples of pump up in a Sentence
the crowd was pumped up by the band's rocking performance
that pop diva is trying to pump up album sales with an extended publicity tour
Recent Examples on the Web
Travis Kelce is pumped up for the first night of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in Paris.
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Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
The warm water is pumped up through these well houses into a pipe system then transferred underground to nearby downtown.
—Kirk Siegler, NPR, 8 May 2024
Everybody's so pumped up and having a great time ...
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2024
But even Wall Street is wondering if the studio’s reported $1 billion annual spend on films would have been better served by pumping up the volume of product rather than taking a few nine-figure swings.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
Both stem from pumping up the voltage in the lines connecting to the encryption key’s bit-generating circuits.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2024
By pumping up the Fall-Winter season with some quintessential New Yorker’s ebullience, Hilfiger — a mainstay of the American fashion complex — made a case for optimism.
—Nick Remsen, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
Regulators said Berman posted over 1,000 messages on the iHUB message board to pump up the stock price.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
There are some solid reasons to want to pump up your push-up skills in the first place.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 2 Apr. 2024
Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
The warm water is pumped up through these well houses into a pipe system then transferred underground to nearby downtown.
—Kirk Siegler, NPR, 8 May 2024
Everybody's so pumped up and having a great time ...
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2024
But even Wall Street is wondering if the studio’s reported $1 billion annual spend on films would have been better served by pumping up the volume of product rather than taking a few nine-figure swings.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
Both stem from pumping up the voltage in the lines connecting to the encryption key’s bit-generating circuits.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2024
By pumping up the Fall-Winter season with some quintessential New Yorker’s ebullience, Hilfiger — a mainstay of the American fashion complex — made a case for optimism.
—Nick Remsen, CNN, 13 Feb. 2024
Regulators said Berman posted over 1,000 messages on the iHUB message board to pump up the stock price.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
There are some solid reasons to want to pump up your push-up skills in the first place.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Pump up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pump%20up. Accessed 13 May. 2024.
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