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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Yet many of these are pumped up on massive amounts of capital that mask serious flaws and vulnerabilities.
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Tima Bansal, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
With party lights overhead, the DJ pumps up the crowd at an outdoor roller rink along the Ohio River.
—Emily Chen-Newton, NPR, 22 July 2025
All three strikeouts came in the sixth with two men on base, and he was pumped up.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 July 2025
Couture is all about fantasy, and for fall 2025 designers pumped up the volumes in their collections, some of which playfully nodded to the natural world.
—Ari Stark, Footwear News, 17 July 2025
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Tima Bansal, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
With party lights overhead, the DJ pumps up the crowd at an outdoor roller rink along the Ohio River.
—Emily Chen-Newton, NPR, 22 July 2025
All three strikeouts came in the sixth with two men on base, and he was pumped up.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 July 2025
Couture is all about fantasy, and for fall 2025 designers pumped up the volumes in their collections, some of which playfully nodded to the natural world.
—Ari Stark, Footwear News, 17 July 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 1 Aug. 2025.
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