pep up

pep up
verb
1. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts (Freq. 1)
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The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers

• Syn:
↑cheer, ↑root on, ↑inspire, ↑urge, ↑barrack, ↑urge on, ↑exhort
• Derivationally related forms: ↑exhortatory (for: ↑exhort), ↑exhortation (for: ↑exhort), ↑urgent (for: ↑urge), ↑urging (for: ↑urge), ↑cheerer (for: ↑cheer), ↑cheering (for: ↑cheer)
• Hypernyms: ↑encourage
• Hyponyms: ↑cheerlead
• Verb Frames:
-

Somebody ——s somebody

2. make more interesting or lively
-

juice up a party

-

pep up your paper

• Syn: ↑jazz up, ↑juice up, ↑ginger up
• Hypernyms: ↑enliven, ↑liven, ↑liven up, ↑invigorate, ↑animate
• Verb Frames:
-

Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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ˌpep ˈup [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they pep up he/she/it peps up present participle pepping up past tense pepped up past participle pepped up] informal phrasal verb
to make someone or something more active and lively

A short break would pep you up.

We need to look at ways of pepping up the economy.

Thesaurus: to become, or to make something more interesting or excitingsynonym to make someone feel excited, enthusiastic or impressedsynonym
Main entry: pep

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pep up [phrasal verb]
informal
1 : to become more lively or active

The economy has started to pep up in recent months.

2 pep (someone or something) up or pep up (someone or something) : to cause (someone or something) to become more lively or active

To pep up [=improve, increase] sales, the company is offering a free trial subscription for one month.

The coach tried to pep the team up.

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Main Entry: ↑pep

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