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▪ I. pumped, a.|pʌmpt|
[f. pump n.2 + -ed2.]
Wearing pumps; having pumps on.
1600J. Lane Tom Tel-troth 325 Some dames are pumpt, because they liue in pompe, That with Herodias they might nimbly daunce, Some in their pantophels too stately stompe. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 48 Splay feet [of a sailor] pumped and festooned on the instep with a bunch of ribbon. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz, New Year, As if we were duly dress-coated and pumped, and had just been announced at the drawing-room door.
▪ II. pumped, ppl. a.|pʌmpt|
[f. pump v. + -ed1.]
1. Obtained by pumping. pumped-up (fig.), raised by an effort likened to pumping; artificially worked up; laboured: cf. pump v. 8.
1792M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. v. 209 Lover⁓like phrases of pumped up passion. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xii, A basin of fresh pumped water. 1904Westm. Gaz. 31 Oct. 6/2 The mob orator, with his sham indignation and pumped-up enthusiasm.
2. pumped-out (also pumped), exhausted or out of breath with exertion; winded: cf. pump v. 12.
1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma liii, The first thing that attracted his attention was his own pumped-out steed.
3. pumped storage, the pumping of water to a higher level when demand for electricity is low so that its return to the lower level can be used to generate hydro-electricity when demand is high. Freq. attrib.
1927F. Johnstone-Taylor Water-Power Pract. x. 163 A total of 450 h.p. being required, pumped storage was resorted to. 1964Times Rev. Industry Jan. 73 A pumped storage scheme..only requires the possibility of constructing two reasonably large storage basins at widely differing levels with a river or adequate rainfall to keep them filled. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 12 June 5/1 In this ancient valley of the New River, American Electric Power Co...wants to build an $845 million pumped-storage project..that would trap 42,100 acres of water behind two dams. |