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
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
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Mark Phelan, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
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—Gregg Evans, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
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The left-handed Madej, meanwhile, was pumped up after making his first appearance on a baseball field in nine months.
—Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
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Mark Phelan, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Things are very different at Coventry and the CBS Arena is pumped up.
—Gregg Evans, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
Power and pump up your tech game with today's Amazon tech deals!
—Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
The left-handed Madej, meanwhile, was pumped up after making his first appearance on a baseball field in nine months.
—Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
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 26 Apr. 2025.
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