pump sb up
informal— phrasal verb with pump uk/pʌmp/us/pʌmp/verb
to make someone feel more confident or excited:
He was offering them advice and trying to pump them up.
The players were pumping themselves up by singing the national anthem before the game.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making people excited and interested
- absorbed
- animate
- be sb's bag idiom
- breathe (new) life into sth idiom
- captivate
- capture
- catch
- enthuse
- entrance 1
- intoxicate
- intrigue
- occupy
- pulse
- pump
- reinvigorate
- rivet
- swing
- talk sth up
- whip sth up
- wow factor
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