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View synonyms for pump up

pump up

  1. Fill with enthusiasm, strength, and energy, as in The lively debate pumped us all up . Mary Wollstonecraft used this idiom in slightly different form in The Rights of Women (1792): “Lover-like phrases of pumped-up passion.”

  2. Inflate with gas or air, as in This tire needs pumping up . [Late 1800s]



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