pumps up
Fills with air
Pumps up means to inflate with air or gas: He pumped up the basketball before the game.
More often it means to energize or excite: The coach pumped up the team before the big game.
Music or a crowd pumps you up when it gets your adrenaline flowing.
To pump yourself up is to build confidence or motivation before a challenge.
- uppedIncreased, past tense
- pressurizeIncrease internal air force
- inflateFill with gas
- upgradeRaise to higher standard
- energizeSupply with vitality
amplify · invigorate · excite · motivate · magnify · aerate · hype up · rally · pep talk · strengthen · uplift · escalate · fill · build up · talk up · big up · blow up · jack up
pumps updeflates
Releases air from
punctures · flattens · depressurizes · empties · pops
pumps updeflates
Releases air from
brings down · discourages · demoralizes · dispirits · disheartens
pumps upturns down
Declines or reduces
lowers · reduces · mutes · dials down · diminishes