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1
to give life, vigor, or spirit to
- an important news story that doesn't need to be amped up with sensationalism
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2
to make markedly greater in measure or degree
- inflammatory rhetoric that served only to amp up the civil unrest that was overspreading the city
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“Amp (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amp%20%28up%29. Accessed 18 Aug. 2022.
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