Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of amping (up)
- an important news story that doesn't need to be amped up with sensationalism
arousing, awakening, awaking, raising, rousing, stirring, waking (up)
activating, actuating, driving, impelling, motivating, motiving, moving, propelling
charging, electrifying, galvanizing
enkindling, exciting, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, inflaming (also enflaming), instigating, kindling, provoking, setting off, sparking, triggering, turning on, whipping (up)
abetting, boosting, buoying, cheering, emboldening, fortifying, heartening, infusing, inspiring, lifting, rallying, steeling, strengthening
reactivating, reanimating, reawakening, reawaking, recharging, recreating, reenergizing (or re-energizing), refreshening, refreshing, regenerating, reinvigorating, rejuvenating, rekindling, renewing, restimulating, resurrecting, resuscitating, revitalizing, reviving
burning out, debilitating, doing in, draining, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, harassing, kayoing, knocking out, sapping, tuckering (out), undermining, washing out, weakening, wearing, wearing out, wearying
checking, curbing, inhibiting, jading, quelling, quenching, repressing, restraining, slowing, stilling, stunting, suppressing
daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting
- inflammatory rhetoric that served only to amp up the civil unrest that was overspreading the city
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