Synonyms of amping (up)

amping (up)

verb

present participle of amp (up)

1

as in stimulating

to give life, vigor, or spirit to

an important news story that doesn't need to be amped up with sensationalism

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stimulating
• zipping (up)
• jazzing (up)
• pepping (up)
• livening (up)
• gingering (up)
• arousing
• juicing up
• stirring
• animating
• waking (up)
• energizing
• electrifying
• awakening
• exciting
• invigorating
• provoking
• enlivening
• driving
• vitalizing
• cheering
• vivifying
• quickening
• bracing
• activating
• inspiring
• spiking
• filliping
• triggering
• lifting
• whipping (up)
• firing
• reviving
• motivating
• strengthening
• jump-starting
• propelling
• awaking
• recreating
• sparking
• rousing
• setting off
• motiving
• raising
• charging
• turning on
• rallying
• boosting
• moving
• actuating
• resurrecting
• refreshing
• galvanizing
• impelling
• renewing
• fermenting
• enflaming
• inciting
• kindling
• fomenting
• buoying
• restimulating
• abetting
• enkindling
• inflaming
• infusing
• instigating
• emboldening
• regenerating
• reawakening
• recharging
• heartening
• revitalizing
• reactivating
• reinvigorating
• rejuvenating
• fortifying
• rekindling
• reenergizing
• steeling
• reawaking
• resuscitating
• reanimating
• refreshening
• re-energizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• doing in
• burning out
• wearing out
• knocking out
• killing
• damping
• washing out
• wearing
• deadening
• dampening
• dulling
• undermining
• exhausting
• draining
• harassing
• debilitating
• weakening
• sapping
• enervating
• checking
• fatiguing
• slowing
• tuckering (out)
• wearying
• restraining
• inhibiting
• curbing
• quenching
• suppressing
• repressing
• stunting
• kayoing
• enfeebling
• quelling
• stilling
• discouraging
• daunting
• disheartening
• fagging
• demoralizing
• jading
• dispiriting

2

as in intensifying

to make markedly greater in measure or degree

inflammatory rhetoric that served only to amp up the civil unrest that was overspreading the city

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intensifying
• deepening
• enhancing
• heightening
• strengthening
• stepping up
• beefing (up)
• consolidating
• pointing (up)
• reinforcing
• amplifying
• boosting
• broadening
• sharpening
• accentuating
• expanding
• magnifying
• redoubling
• emphasizing
• lengthening
• extending
• augmenting
• accelerating
• jazzing (up)
• enforcing
• maximizing
• supplementing
• enlarging
• quickening
• hastening
• stressing
• enlivening
• reenforcing
• exacerbating
• aggravating
• restrengthening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reducing
• tapering (off)
• decreasing
• moderating
• diminishing
• lessening
• abating
• weakening
• toning (down)
• letting up (on)
• subduing
• waning
• dwindling
• receding
• subsiding
• alleviating
• lightening
• easing