pump
verb /pʌmp/
/pʌmp/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they pump | /pʌmp/ /pʌmp/ |
he / she / it pumps | /pʌmps/ /pʌmps/ |
past simple pumped | /pʌmpt/ /pʌmpt/ |
past participle pumped | /pʌmpt/ /pʌmpt/ |
-ing form pumping | /ˈpʌmpɪŋ/ /ˈpʌmpɪŋ/ |
- pump something (+ adv./prep.) The engine is used for pumping water out of the mine.
- The heart pumps blood around the body.
- It took ages to pump out the cellar (= pump the water out of it) after the flood.
- pump something + adj. The lake had been pumped dry.
Extra ExamplesTopics Engineeringc1- His heart pumped harder as he held his breath.
- The lungs pump oxygen into the bloodstream.
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. (of a liquid) to flow in a particular direction as if it is being forced by a pump
- Blood was pumping out of his wound.
- The shock sent adrenalin pumping through her veins.
- [transitive] pump something (+ adv./prep.) to move something quickly up and down or in and out
- He kept pumping my hand up and down.
- I pumped the handle like crazy.
- [intransitive] to move quickly up and down or in and out
- She sprinted for the line, legs pumping.
- My heart was pumping with excitement.
- [transitive] pump somebody (for something) (informal) to try to get information from somebody by asking them a lot of questions
- See if you can pump him for more details.
Word Originverb late Middle English (originally in nautical use): related to Dutch pomp ‘ship's pump’ (earlier in the sense ‘wooden or metal conduit’), probably partly of imitative origin.
Idioms
pump bullets, shots, etc. into somebody
- to fire a lot of bullets into somebody
pump somebody full of something
- to fill somebody with something, especially drugs
- They pumped her full of painkillers.
pump iron
- (informal) to do exercises in which you lift heavy weights in order to make your muscles strongerTopics Health and Fitnessc2
pump somebody’s stomach
- to remove the contents of somebody’s stomach using a pump, because they have swallowed something harmful
- He had his stomach pumped after taking an overdose.