pump up

English

Verb

pump up (third-person singular simple present pumps up, present participle pumping up, simple past and past participle pumped up)

1. (transitive) To inflate by means of a pump.
2. (transitive) To inflate with a pumping action.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To excite a person or group to a frenzy.
4. (intransitive, bodybuilding) To cause one's muscles to swell by means of focussed weightlifting.

Translations

to inflate by means of a pump

• Finnish: pumpata (fi)
• German: aufpumpen
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: felpumpál (hu)
• Portuguese: bombear (pt)

to inflate with a pumping action

• Finnish: pumpata (fi)
• German: aufpumpen
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: felpumpál (hu)
• Portuguese: bombear (pt)