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单词 pump up
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pump up

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1

Inflate with gas or air, as in This tire needs pumping up. [Late 1800s]

2

Fill with enthusiasm, strength, and energy, as in The lively debate pumped us all up. Mary Wollstonecraft used this idiom in slightly different form in The Rights of Women (1792): “Lover-like phrases of pumped-up passion.”

Words nearby pump up

pump lung, pumpman, pump-oxygenator, pump priming, pump room, pump up, pun, puna, Punakha, Punan, Puncak Jaya
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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