pump1 nounpump2 verb
pumppump1 /pʌmp/ ●●○ noun 
WORD ORIGINpump1
Origin:
1, 3 1400-1500 Middle Low German pumpe or Middle Dutch pompe, probably from Spanish bomba2 1500-1600 Origin unknownEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a pair of blue leather pumps
- A visitor treks to the pumps from the darkened viewing room of the aquarium by opening an unmarked door.
- After two miles he came to a garage on the left, a small affair with old-style hand-operated pumps and a little office.
- At once, Poole could hear the throbbing of the pumps as precious air was sucked out of the lock chamber.
- But just as likely, his brief time alongside the men at Midvale ran together with his years at the pump works.
- The device which I call a Wurly costs no more than a standard pump to run.
- The leak was reportedly from a pump in the plant.
- These stones extend down the watercourse, over which water flows with the aid of a simple submersible pump.
WORD SETS
ball bearing, nounbelt, nouncog, nouncombustion chamber, nounconveyor belt, nouncoolant, nouncooling system, nouncrank, verbdifferential, noundisengage, verbdismantle, verbdrive, nounfour-stroke engine, nounfuel cell, nounfulcrum, noungear, nounheat pump, nounhydraulic, adjectiveinertia, nounmechanical, adjectivemechanical engineering, nounmill, nounmillstone, nounmillwheel, nounmomentum, nounmotive, adjectiveneutral, nounnuclear reactor, nounoil pan, nounpivot, nounpropulsion, nounpulley, nounpump, nounrace, verbratchet, nounreactor, nounregulate, verbretract, verbrev, verbrev, nounrotor, nounselector, nounstarter motor, nounstress, nounstressed, adjectivestrip, verbsump, nounsupercharged, adjectivetemplate, nountop gear, nountorque, nountwo-stroke, adjectiveuniversal joint, nounvalve, nounwheel, nounwinch, nounwindlass, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
When she won the final game of the set, she did a fist pump. a suction pumpCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(=for moving water, air etc)
(=operated by your hand or foot)
(=for putting petrol into cars)
(=for removing the contents of someone’s stomach)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=for putting more air in a tyre)· Where’s the bicycle pump?
When she won the final game of the set, she did a fist pump. (=a machine that forces fuel into an engine)· The car's fuel pump was leaking.
(=a machine for putting petrol into cars at a petrol station)
a suction pump· Some pubs, mainly in the Midlands and the North, use electric pumps to draw the beer to the bar.· Residents say several concerns must be addressed immediately: The noise problem could be helped with the installation of an electric pump.· An alternative method is to attach an electric drill water pump attachment to the tap.· He added the city apparently decided on diesel because electric pumps cost more.· As the peat shrank further, more powerful electric pumps and diesel pumps became available.· A high capacity electric pump flooded the engine and no return for excess fuel was fitted.· Examples of different types of electric pumps.
· Losing the left engine is trickier since it drives both the single generator and the sole hydraulic pump.· It was originally operated by steam-powered hydraulic pumps, but is now driven electrically.· This was originally done by steam engines with hydraulic pumps.
· These stones extend down the watercourse, over which water flows with the aid of a simple submersible pump.· The project involves initial drilling and completion of 86 oil and 20 water-injection wells and installing a submersible pump system in each.· Because most submersible pumps are not designed to cope with solids.· Then a submersible pump, concealed in a sump, conveys it back up to a blockwork filter filled with Canterbury spar.· Some submersible pumps have a very small discharge and so it is important to judge the water flow required before shopping around.· Installation of a submersible pump is quite simple, for, as described earlier, it is merely placed in the water.· The ring is attached to the outflow of a submersible pump.
NOUN· They recovered a pump action shotgun.· Trigger sprayers: These hand sprayers easily recognisable by their trigger pump action are known widely to gardeners.· Baillie then confronted McCubbin armed with a cut throat razor and a pump action shotgun.· Your favourite Wella Shockwaves Gel-Sprays and Hairsprays are now in handy pump action bottles with a new advanced spray mechanism.· He worked the pump action frantically to eject the spent cartridge and reload.
· The equipment need only be a sponge filter, air pump and heaterstat.· His other suggestions were in respect of a chemical pump and an air pump.· When connected and adjusted, an air pump needs very little attention.· At the same time the air pump removes waste water and air from the separate condenser thus maintaining a vacuum in it.· His undergravel filter, therefore was best powered by an air pump rather than powerheads.· Good features Most air pumps are cheap and efficient.· Which you choose, an air pump or alternative means, is a matter of personal choice.
· In the event of a fuel pump failure the same reserve holds good.· The fuel pump gave out and left us sitting by the side of the road in the heat to consider our options.· There is a filter on the inlet side of the fuel pump which may be partially blocked and obstructing fuel flow.· The main engines and fuel pumps are removed and sent for refurbishment.· Since then I have replaced the old leaky fuel pump which has given me a perplexing problem.· It makes control of the fuel pump that much more precise.· However a special fuel pump had to be found to make the tractor suitable for farm work.· It began by not going up hills and it was suggested it might be the fuel pump.
· She perches herself on the tiny pink chair near the gas pumps, making sure customers can see her.· There were long lines at the gas pumps, a permanent downturn in the economy, Carly Simon on the radio.· I actually thought of credit cards on gas pumps way before it happened.
· In some pubs fake hand pumps serve gassy beer.· The hand pump on the other hand supplies a basic human need required by all people, clean water.· Air was supplied by hand pump.· The book includes a bag of balloons, a hand pump and easy-to-follow instructions.
· Perhaps the articles turned out badly because his heart wasn't really in that kind of parish pump, chatty writing.· There was a paper, the Villager, but a parish pump periodical wasn't really what the place needed.
· Londoner Richard Tompkins worked as a petrol pump attendant before starting the stamp company in 1956.· It was normal for large houses to carry their own petrol pumps and fire appliances.· An on/off switch on the dashboard controls the petrol pump, and a hand-operated gas-valve regulates the gas flow.· Once the gas flow is adequate, the petrol pump is switched off.· On a hill, the petrol pump is switched on and the gas valve is switched off.· Out from behind a petrol pump appeared a figure that was female, though it took a few seconds to realise it.· Many want to see the return of petrol pump attendants because of the difficulties with self-self service.· What did the robot say to the petrol pump?
· An extra water pump in the form of an internal power sponge filter will be necessary for good water circulation.· Jack leant against the stone surround of the village water pump.· An alternative method is to attach an electric drill water pump attachment to the tap.· Water pump stolen A £100 water pump has been stolen from the garden of a house in Long Lane, Rayne.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► prime the pump
1[countable] a machine for forcing liquid or gas into or out of somethingwater/air/beer etc pump (=for moving water, air etc)hand/foot pump (=operated by your hand or foot)petrol pump/gas pump (=for putting petrol into cars)stomach pump (=for removing the contents of someone’s stomach)2[countable usually plural] a)British English a flat light shoe for dancing, exercise, sport etc b)American English a woman’s plain shoe with no laces, buckles etc: - He then, with a foot pedal, activates the wire-cutter.
- I also use a Boogie and split the signal from a foot pedal to two amps usually.
- I hear the rat-ta-ta-tat of the foot pedal, as she stitches along.
- The amount of push, and therefore the direction the nose points, is controlled by pushing the foot pedals.
- Demand for most bonds is high because investors keep putting money into corporate bond funds.
- First, it has poured money into Xinjiang.
- I too had put money into the hat.
- If the possible reward is very high, I would put money into a business that could fail. 4.
- In addition, the company has soured some investors by pouring money into headlong expansion at the expense of earnings.
- Staff can add credit on to their cards by putting money into card machines in the building.
- The people believed, and many of them were putting money into improving their homes, modernizing their small businesses.
- This, he says, accounts for developers fighting shy of putting money into the city.
a pair of leather pumps3[countable] an act of pumping → heat pump, → all hands to the pumps at hand1(39), → prime the pump at prime3(4), → parish pumppump1 nounpump2 verb
pumppump2 ●●○ verb VERB TABLE
pump
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | pump |
| he, she, it | pumps | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | pumped |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have pumped |
| he, she, it | has pumped | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had pumped |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pump |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have pumped |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am pumping |
| he, she, it | is pumping | |
| you, we, they | are pumping | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was pumping |
| you, we, they | were pumping | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been pumping |
| he, she, it | has been pumping | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been pumping |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be pumping |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been pumping |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He pumped away furiously.
- We were able to pump clean groundwater from several of the wells.
- Actually, Cotton needs pumping about as much as Charles Barkley needs prompting.
- As you know, blood begins to settle in the lowest part of the body as soon as the heart stops pumping it around.
- Emergency crews were called to pump water from 7 houses.
- I pressed in, remained, pumped.
- They have not pumped up taxes; personal and corporate income taxes have remained at reasonable levels.
- Up to 60, 000 temporary jobs are expected to pump an estimated $ 2 billion in wages into the local economy.
- When the water is pumped out if there is much oil in it the crew knows the casks are leaking.
Longman Language Activatorto fill something with air
to fill something with air or gas, for example a tyre or a balloon: blow up something/blow something up: · Come and help me blow up the balloons.· This tyre's really flat - could you blow it up for me?
formal if you inflate something such as a tyre or balloon or it inflates , you fill it with air: · Tyres should always be inflated to the correct pressure.· You can inflate the mattress in 30 seconds, using a foot pump.· Her life jacket failed to inflate.
to fill something with air using a pump (=a machine that forces air into something): pump up something/pump something up: · Your back tire was a little flat so I pumped it up.
to ask someone a lot of questions to ask someone a lot of questions, in order to get information or find out what they think: · We all wondered where Sylvia got the money, but no one dared question her.question somebody about something: · Liz was very well informed and questioned me about the political situation in Africa.question somebody closely (=carefully, asking a lot of difficult questions): · The interviewer questioned Miss Jarvis closely about her computer experience.
to ask someone a lot of questions very quickly in order to confuse them or make them admit to something: · The lawyer fired questions at me so quickly I didn't have time to think.· The teacher kept shooting questions at the frightened girls until they confessed everything.
also give somebody a grilling British to ask someone a lot of difficult questions in order to make them explain their actions, plans, or opinions: · I stood in the hall and listened as the interviewers grilled the next candidate.· Hilda's teacher gave her a real grilling about why she'd missed so many classes.grill somebody about/on something: · Maxine started grilling me on why I'd been spending so much time alone.
informal to ask someone a lot of difficult questions in order to make them explain their actions, plans, or opinions: · I was just out with friends - you don't have to give me the third degree.· Whenever one of my boyfriends came to the house, Dad would give them the third degree.
to ask someone a lot of questions about a particular subject or event in order to get as much information as possible: pump somebody for information/details: · Viktor sat with Vassily and me and pumped me for information about hockey teams.· He wants to pump Jody for the details of some job her company is advertising.
to ask someone a lot of questions, especially because you want to find out what they have been doing, and often in a way that annoys them: · When Stan eventually came home from the party, his wife quizzed him for hours.quiz somebody about/on something: · My parents never stop quizzing me about where I go at night.· Reporters quizzed the President on tax policy and Central America.
to ask someone for information about something because you think they know more about it than you: · You know all about tax law - can I pick your brains for a minute?· The workshop is designed so that new managers can pick the brains of managers with more experience.
WORD SETSaggregate, nounalloy, nounamber, nounanneal, verbarc welding, nounasbestos, nounassay, verbautomaker, nounaviation, nounBakelite, nounbasketry, nounbenzene, nounbevel, nounbiodegradable, adjectiveblast, verbblast furnace, nounboom, nounboom town, nounbore, verbbore, nounborehole, nounby-product, nouncane, nouncast, verbcasting, nouncedar, nounchipboard, nounchippings, nouncoalface, nouncollier, nouncolliery, nounconcentrate, nouncondenser, nounconstruction, nounconstructor, nounconverter, nouncork, nouncottage industry, nouncross-grained, adjectivecrude, adjectivedeskill, verbdetonate, verbdetonator, noundetoxification, noundevelopment, noundie, noundie casting, noundiesel, noundiesel fuel, noundiggings, noundrill, verbdrive, verbelectronics, nounend product, nounepoxy resin, nounextrude, verbfabricate, verbfabrication, nounforge, nounfound, verbfoundry, nounglass fibre, noungoldmine, nounground glass, nounhigh technology, nounindustrial, adjectiveindustrial archaeology, nounindustrialism, nounindustrialist, nounindustrialization, nouningot, nouninstallation, nounjute, nounlaminate, nounlaminated, adjectivelaser, nounlatex, nounlight industry, nounlime, nounlode, nounlow-tech, adjectivelubricant, nounlubricate, verbmacadam, nounmacerate, verbmachine, verbmachine tool, nounmachinist, nounmaker, nounmanganese, nounmanufacture, verbmanufacture, nounmasonry, nounmaterial, nounmatrix, nounmeat-packing, nounmetal, nounmetal fatigue, nounmetallic, adjectivemetallurgy, nounmetalwork, nounmill, verbmine, nounmine, verbminer, nounmining, nounmodular, adjectivemodule, nounmolten, adjectivemolybdenum, nounmortise, nounmother lode, nounmould, verbmoulding, nounochre, nounoff-cut, nounoil, nounoil paint, nounopencast, adjectiveoxyacetylene, nounpackaging, nounpaint stripper, nounpaintwork, nounpaling, nounpallet, nounpan, nounpanelling, nounpanel pin, nounpaper, adjectivepapier mâché, nounpatent leather, nounperfumery, nounpit, nounpitch, nounpithead, nounplane, verbplant, nounplywood, nounpost-industrial, adjectiveprocess, nounproduce, verbproduct, nounproduction, nounproductivity, nounpulp, verbpump, verbPVC, nounquarry, nounquartz, nounready-made, adjectiverefine, verbrefined, adjectivereprocess, verbroller, nounrough-hewn, adjectiverubber, nounsafety lamp, nounsandblast, verbsealskin, nounshaft, nounshavings, nounsheeting, nounsheet metal, nounshipbuilder, nounskilled, adjectiveslag, nounslag heap, nounsludge, nounslurry, nounsmelt, verbsmith, nounsmithy, nounsmokestack, nounsmokestack industry, nounsoftwood, nounsolder, nounsolder, verbsoldering iron, nounspirit level, nounspray paint, nounsteam, nounsteel, nounstrip mine, nounStyrofoam, nounsunrise industry, nounsynthesis, nounsynthesize, verbtannery, nountemper, verbtensile strength, nountextile, nounthree-ply, adjectiveunrefined, adjectiveunvarnished, adjectiveupright, nounvarnish, nounvat, nounvinyl, nounvulcanize, verbwarehouse, nounwattle, nounwax, nounwaxen, adjectivewaxy, adjectiveweld, verbweld, nounwelder, nounwickerwork, nounwire, nounwood, nounwood pulp, nounwork, verbworking, nounworkshop, nounwrought iron, nounyarn, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY When she won the final game of the set, she did a fist pump. a suction pumpCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
American English (=put gasoline into a car) He got a job pumping gas for the hotel guests.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He got a job pumping gas for the hotel guests. (=for putting more air in a tyre)· Where’s the bicycle pump?
When she won the final game of the set, she did a fist pump. (=a machine that forces fuel into an engine)· The car's fuel pump was leaking.
(=a machine for putting petrol into cars at a petrol station)
a suction pump· He would pump away until he was exhausted, as though by sheer force he could inject her with fertile seed.· He held my head as I pumped away.· Usually they hopped on and pumped away and suddenly it was over.· Karen is pumping away, unsmiling, just beginning to break a sweat.· Feel your body, feel that crimson muscle inside your chest, and those frothy pink bellows of yours, pumping away.· Still clad in her tattered working clothes, her wellingtons pumped away assiduously to give the instrument the breath it required.
· Air pumped in as the warning sirens died away.· The patient is awake throughout, and must lie absolutely still when the drug is pumped in.· The dip liquid is pumped in from a vacuum tanker.· They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion, her head still pumping in and out.
· It is no good reducing interest rates on their own, because there is no point in just pumping out credit.· Here, 300 workers are busy pumping out solar panels.· My enjoyment was only tempered by my fear of pumping out.· The amount of paper pumped out in those warrens was awesome.· The blood came pumping out and I was sure I was going to die.· But a lot of the water being pumped out of the ground is as nonrenewable as oil.· Berlusconi's television empire pumps out nothing but self-serving propaganda.· It requires putting a protective cover on the site, pumping out the contaminated substance, and then treating it.
· Flak began to be pumped up one searchlight beam: bombs meant bombers.· Viscosity of the waste stream is not critical unless it prevents the material from being pumped up to the required operating pressure.· A well was sunk in the back garden, and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen.· Time soured the high feelings pumped up by a winning, if inconclusive, war.· A few insects have tracheae that swell into thin-walled balloons which are depressed and expanded as the abdomen pumps up and down.· When he and his friends used skiing to pump up their egos I encouraged them.· He was still pumped up after the brief battle.· But pumped up to the density required for a robot, circuit strangeness becomes indelible.
NOUN· It was a deliciously decadent daydream which stirred the blood, sending adrenalin pumping through his system.· The adrenalin which had been pumping into her bloodstream since early the previous day had burned up all her reserves of energy.· The adrenalin was pumping but I knew that I could control it, knew that it was necessary to a good performance.· Impossible. Adrenalin was pumping round me.
· This bladder inflated when air was pumped into the suit at a pressure of 26 kPa.· The size of the inner diameter regulates the amount of sample, reagents, water, and air pumped into the system.· However, measures to save the airline failed when Delta Air Lines refused to pump money into the ailing carrier.· Then air is pumped into the area, forcing the water out.
· Cut clean, the blood still pumping.· However, the amount of blood pumped by the heart remains the same.· It was a deliciously decadent daydream which stirred the blood, sending adrenalin pumping through his system.· A bright-red liquid, redder than blood pumped from the human heart, flows from this mixture.· Her mouth went dry, and her blood began to pump hot and thick through ultra-sensitive veins.· I could feel the blood pump through her chest.· The blood came pumping out and I was sure I was going to die.· His skin was bursting, stretched almost to transparency by the blood pumped down into it.
· The hot gas is pumped to a coil in the indoor unit where cooler indoor air is blown across the hot coils.· Evcn the coyote chained to a stake near the gas pumps to entertain the tourists understands the meaning of injustice.
· The man who was now pumping my hand with just a little too much fervour was completely bald.· Laz pumps my hand in a blustering manner that sends his straight hair bobbing over his ruddy face.
· He whirled from the door, heart still pumping madly from his encounter in the basement.· Heart failure means that the heart muscle is not pumping well enough to meet the need for oxygen-rich blood.· Sometimes it would modulate to a hum and at others rise to a shriek according to how hard his heart was pumping.· High blood pressure means the heart is straining to pump blood.· Doyle moved quickly along the gardens, crouching slightly, eyes keen for movement, heart beginning to pump.· Ultimately, that defect prevents the heart from pumping well.· I rest on the top of the wall, my hands shaking, my heart pumping hard.· This makes it hard for the heart to pump blood into the adjacent organ, causing the heart to enlarge and weaken.
· When she saw him, she started running, fat legs pumping.· His little eyes struggled in the early sunlight, his pudgy, over-burdened legs pumping on the sand, craving asphalt.· Her legs were pumping and her fingers were wild at her throat.· My legs still pumped but became heavier, denser, as the water in my body boiled into the air.· Their bare legs pump bicycle pedals, they clatter on wooden-soled sandals into the dazzling light over the work benches.
· Unless they pump in more money, they stand to be forced into massive write-offs.· Simply pumping more money into the public education system only would perpetuate the status quo.· They are prepared to force ministers to pump more money into keeping bills down.· However, measures to save the airline failed when Delta Air Lines refused to pump money into the ailing carrier.· The central bank promised to pump more money into the system if there were any further signs of instability.· Villanova ultimately severed ties with du Pont even after he pumped enormous amounts of money into their wrestling program.· Though the Fed pumped money into the banks, the money supply seemed not to budge much.
· They will probably pump more oil in coming months.· Rough weather has all but stopped efforts to pump that oil out of the upside-down hull.
· On pumping her stomach, they find 27 varieties of semen in her.
· Then, their ears protected against the piercing whine, they activated the suction pump.
· As no water is pumped through the unit, no flow rate restrictions apply.· The water is pumped 60 miles and climbs more than 3, 000 feet to reach the city.· A well was sunk in the back garden, and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen.· But a lot of the water being pumped out of the ground is as nonrenewable as oil.· Thames Water has agreed to reduce the amount of water it pumps from its boreholes during winter by 60 percent.· When the water is pumped out if there is much oil in it the crew knows the casks are leaking.· The grit settles in the quarries and the milk-white water is pumped up into tanks where the china clay settles slowly.· A stream of water is pumped into a hot reactor, where it boils and is heated to very high temperatures.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► have your stomach pumped► pump bullets into somebody/something► pump something ↔ outPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► prime the pump
1move in a direction [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to make liquid or gas move in a particular direction, using a pumppump something into/out of/through something- And keeping in shape with her is a lot better than pumping iron.
- Before I met her I used to pump iron.
- In any case, farmer's boys have no time to make hay before they are pumping iron not milk.
- They pump iron for hours every morning.
- Yes, even his face was muscular, as though he pumped iron with his ears.
- However, measures to save the airline failed when Delta Air Lines refused to pump money into the ailing carrier.
- Though the Fed pumped money into the banks, the money supply seemed not to budge much.
- The doctor had him pumped full of pain killers.
- It pumps me so full of adrenalin that I pace in and out of duty-free shops, toilets, coffee shops, anything.
- Suit's pumped me full of painkillers, but nothing else.
- They pumped her full of drugs.
- He then, with a foot pedal, activates the wire-cutter.
- I also use a Boogie and split the signal from a foot pedal to two amps usually.
- I hear the rat-ta-ta-tat of the foot pedal, as she stitches along.
- The amount of push, and therefore the direction the nose points, is controlled by pushing the foot pedals.
- Demand for most bonds is high because investors keep putting money into corporate bond funds.
- First, it has poured money into Xinjiang.
- I too had put money into the hat.
- If the possible reward is very high, I would put money into a business that could fail. 4.
- In addition, the company has soured some investors by pouring money into headlong expansion at the expense of earnings.
- Staff can add credit on to their cards by putting money into card machines in the building.
- The people believed, and many of them were putting money into improving their homes, modernizing their small businesses.
- This, he says, accounts for developers fighting shy of putting money into the city.
The fire department is still pumping floodwater out of the cellars.2move from under ground [transitive] to bring a supply of water, oil etc to the surface from under the ground: We were able to pump clean water from several of the wells.pump gas American English (=put gasoline into a car) He got a job pumping gas for the hotel guests.3move in and out [intransitive] (also pump away) to move very quickly in and out or up and down: My heart was pumping fast.4use a pump [intransitive] (also pump away) to operate a pumppump at The furnace man’s job was to pump away furiously at the bellows.5come out [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if a liquid pumps from somewhere, it comes out suddenly in small amountspump from/out of Blood pumped from the wound.6ask questions [transitive] informal to ask someone a lot of questions in order to get information from thempump somebody for something I tried to pump him for information about their other contacts.7drugs pump somebody full of something informal to put a lot of drugs into someone’s body: athletes pumped full of steroids8exercise pump iron informal to do exercises by lifting heavy weights9medical treatment have your stomach pumped to have a medical treatment to remove things you have swallowed, using a pumppump something into somebody/something phrasal verb1pump bullets into somebody/something informal to shoot someone several times2pump money into something to put a lot of money into a project, investment etcpump out phrasal verb1if something such as music, information, or a supply of products pumps out, or if someone pumps it out, a lot of it is produced: Music pumped out from the loudspeakers.pump something ↔ out propaganda pumped out by the food industry2pump something ↔ out to remove liquid from something, using a pump: You’ll have to pump the boat out.pump something/somebody ↔ up phrasal verb1to fill a tyre, airbed etc with air until it is full SYN inflate2 informal to increase the value, amount, or level of something: The US was able to pump up exports. Come on, pump up the volume (=play music louder)!3to increase someone’s excitement, interest etc