soup sth up
informal— phrasal verb with soup uk/suːp/us/suːp/verb
to make something more powerful or more attractive by making changes to it, especially when it is old:
New circuit boards can be used to soup up existing machines.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming and making stronger
- aggrandize
- boil
- boil up
- bolster
- cement
- concentrate
- concentrated
- dial
- fortify
- fuel
- gel
- harden
- jell
- power (sth) up
- reignite
- take hold idiom
- that'll put hairs on your chest! idiom
- tighten
- tighten sth up
- toughen
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