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
Recent Examples on the Web
The Escape is a 5-gallon jug fitted with a purifier inside and a pressurization pump up top (sort of like a beer keg).
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Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 25 June 2025
That entire section unfolds with livewire energy, pumped up by Alan Myson’s driving techno score and by the shock of the assault.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
That figure is pumped up by assuming things that might never happen, according to a New York Times analysis of federal contracting data and interviews with people familiar with that contract who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to discuss it with members of the media.
—David A. Fahrenthold, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
In public, the Trumps pump up their projects, yet in private the first family appears to be dumping at least a portion of its holdings.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
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Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 25 June 2025
That entire section unfolds with livewire energy, pumped up by Alan Myson’s driving techno score and by the shock of the assault.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
That figure is pumped up by assuming things that might never happen, according to a New York Times analysis of federal contracting data and interviews with people familiar with that contract who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not permitted to discuss it with members of the media.
—David A. Fahrenthold, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
In public, the Trumps pump up their projects, yet in private the first family appears to be dumping at least a portion of its holdings.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 10 June 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 18 Jul. 2025.
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