Definition of "pumped up" []

• Excited, particularly due to anticipation. (adjective)
• Having muscles in an engorged state following exercise. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of pump up. (verb)

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• "His undoubted merits in detail - his half-wistful cynicism, his capacity for evoking simple emotions, his deft skill at managing the puny difficulties of vers libre - were thereupon pumped up to such an extent that his defects were lost sight of."
• "He pumped up the tires and oiled it and set out squeakily to explore the neighborhood."
• "But nothing kept the dust at bay for long, and after a while the creek dried up to a string of waterholes, so that there was no water to be pumped up from it to kitchen or bathroom."