pump up

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English - English
To excite a person or group to a frenzy
: To cause one's muscles to swell by means of focussed weightlifting
To inflate by means of a pump
To inflate with a pumping action
inflate
If you pump up something such as a tyre, you fill it with air using a pump. I tried to pump up my back tyre
pump up

    Turkish pronunciation

    pʌmp ʌp

    Pronunciation

    /ˈpəmp ˈəp/ /ˈpʌmp ˈʌp/

    Etymology

    [ 'p&mp ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle English pumpe, pompe, from Middle Low German pumpe or Middle Dutch pompe, perhaps from Spanish bomba, of imitative origin.
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