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
Harbaugh also recalled telling Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert ahead of Sunday’s game that he felt unusually pumped up.
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Ben Morse, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
Its high 2024 grounder park factor of 116.9 pumped up offense a bit - at this point, that seems like an outlier that should regress to the mean going forward.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
In this week’s Saturday Night Live promo, Michael Keaton seems very pumped up to return as host.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
Dell's speakers can pump up the volume but are not the most impressive in frequency response.
—PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
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Ben Morse, CNN, 15 Oct. 2024
Its high 2024 grounder park factor of 116.9 pumped up offense a bit - at this point, that seems like an outlier that should regress to the mean going forward.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
In this week’s Saturday Night Live promo, Michael Keaton seems very pumped up to return as host.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
Dell's speakers can pump up the volume but are not the most impressive in frequency response.
—PCMAG, 27 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for pump up
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“Pump up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pump%20up. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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