amped
/æmpt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.80 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of amp
adj
Activated, as with electric power.
Example Sentences
- "All four motors should be amped to check the loading on the motors before new motors are installed. The amp checks might reveal that a smaller size motor could be use"
- "Two guitars were amped and miked, while a third space was empty and waiting for Kellan's guitar."
- "If I listen to fast music before I go out in a heat, it gets me too amped out and then I can't concentrate on my surfing."
- "But I didn't care. I was twenty-two years old. I was invincible. “Keep it going,” Sparky said at one point. He was too amped to sleep, so he turned on the radio and cranked the volume."
- "But whether the guy was fiddling too intently with the XM radio tuner or was simply too amped on NoDoz and cheap cigarettes, speeding along to a New Year's Eve party, he keeps driving."
- "Hawk ate it, and ate it again and again, and failed four times before regulation time ran out. But Hawk kept going; the crowd was amped to see history made, and Tony was amped to make it"
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Usage
Inflected Forms
more amped (comparative)
most amped (superlative)