pump up
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cause one's muscles to swell by means of focused weightlifting.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "For someone who is in shape, it is not difficult to pump up a car tire with a bicycle pump; it is merely tedious. But you can get the job done if you need it bad enough."
- "The singer has been pumping up the audience."
- "I want to pump you up."
- "He's gonna help me pump up."
- "You have to pump up the relatability of the characters in your screenplay."
- "pump up the jam"