PUMPED Synonyms: 167 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈpəm(p)t

Definition of pumped

as in excited

showing urgent desire or interest the whole city's so pumped for this championship that it's unbelievable

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pumped

2 of 2

verb

past tense of pump

as in bobbed

to make short up-and-down movements the thighs of the bicyclists were pumping furiously as they neared the finish line

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as in interrogated

to put a series of questions to prying neighbors pumped the guileless child for information about the family's new pool

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as in drained

to remove (liquid) gradually or completely pumped water from the well

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Recent Examples of pumped

Adjective

Over 90 percent of what’s pumped is toxic water that needs to be removed and treated, making operations more expensive. — Manuela Andreoni Erin Schaff, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2023 Jack Harlow is pumped and totally ready to pull double-duty as host/musical guest on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2022

Verb

When pumped with a 940-nanometer Ti laser, the waveguides produced laser light at 1,030 nanometers. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026 Fresh water is often pumped into the caverns during rapid drawdowns, which dissolves the salt walls, Misra said. — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pumped

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pumped

Adjective

On the opposite sideline, Trimble Tech Head Coach MK Hamilton entered the season with a more experienced roster and was excited about the leadership his veteran players bring.

— Riley Ledesma, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2026
The Atlanta native is excited to carry his dreams and the family name forward.

— PJ Green August 28, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of excited

Verb

An interesting collective approach to American history was PRX Productions’ provocative series Monumental, in which features by a range of independent producers interrogated the history as reflected in public monuments.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
Back in 1985 in the Soviet Union, Merryl Goldberg was interrogated by the KGB three times, briefly kidnapped by the state security agency twice and put under house arrest once.

— Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of interrogated

Verb

The attackers used the IP addresses to host a smart contract that drained about $235,000 in bitcoin from people trying to visit the Celer Bridge cryptocurrency exchange.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
In France, for example, officials have drained glacier lakes to head off potential flooding, Gagliardini says.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of drained

Adjective

And the audience for those games skews young, with more than half of all avid soccer viewers aged 18-to-34, a demographic highly sought by advertisers and one that suggests NBC’s numbers could stay strong for years.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Pretti was an avid mountain biker, and the two had been planning to go biking together once the weather turned warm.

— Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of avid

Verb

The offence that shook baseball in October appeared again, leading the Jays to their second-largest margin of victory this year in an 11-0 win against the Cleveland Guardians.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Several heavy explosions shook Kuhestak, with fireballs that lighted up the night sky, according to security camera recordings carried by the semiofficial news agency Fars.

— David Rising, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of shook

Adjective

Bell, however, couldn’t be more enthusiastic for the opportunity.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 30 Aug. 2026
The other clock hiding inside it The TC001 has attracted an enthusiastic home-automation following because it can be used with AWTRIX, an open-source firmware and ecosystem designed around small LED matrix displays.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of enthusiastic

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