verb
1. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts (Freq. 1)
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The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
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• 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:
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Somebody ——s somebody
2. make more interesting or lively
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juice up a party
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pep up your paper
• Hypernyms: ↑enliven, ↑liven, ↑liven up, ↑invigorate, ↑animate
• Verb Frames:
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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.
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Main Entry: ↑pep
Useful english dictionary. 2012.