vamp sth up
— phrasal verb with vamp uk/væmp/us/væmp/verb
to make something more attractive and exciting:
The dress is simple and elegant, but you could vamp it up for evening wear with some stunning jewellery.
Leopard-print tissues prove that designers will vamp up even the most mundane objects.
vamp it up
to act like a vamp:
pictures of Sharon Stone vamping it up on the red carpet
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making things better
- a shot in the arm idiom
- add salt to sth idiom
- allay
- alleviate
- ameliorate
- heal
- make sb/sth over
- mitigate
- mollify
- more
- palliate
- redeem
- relieve
- salve
- spice
- spice sth up
- sting
- straighten
- straighten sb out
- streamline
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