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Pumped

adjective

Tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline. Synonyms: pumped-up, pumped up, wired. "He was so pumped he couldn't sleep"

Pump

verb

(past & past part. pumped; pres. part. pumping)

Operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal.

Deliver forth.

Draw or pour with a pump.

Supply in great quantities.

Flow intermittently.

Move up and down.

Raise (gases or fluids) with a pump.

Question persistently.

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... any Holland in the first place," Father Vedder answered. "There were only some marshes and some lands under water. But people built a wall of earth around these flats; and then they pumped out the water from the space inside the wall, and made canals through the land, and drained it. And after all that work, we have our ...

— The Dutch Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

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— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague

... till there was no more (save tears) to be pumped out of her, Mrs. Quelch, still firmly grasping her umbrella, proceeded next door, on the chance that her neighbour, Mrs. Fladgate, might be able to give her some information. She found Mrs. Fladgate weeping in the parlour with an open telegram before her. Being a woman ...

— Stories by English Authors: England • Various

... on to Upham village, the Colonel straight, as if at the head of a battalion, though his lungs pumped hard at every step, holding back his square shoulders, protruding his tight broadcloth, swinging his stick airily, Jerome at his side, burdened like a peasant, with his sheaf of cut leather, but holding up ...

— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... cake that it looked like an advertisement for somebody's baking-powder. But the Primus stove roared so loudly that it was useless to try to talk above it. Alice sat down on the edge of a basket-chair while Mrs. Stubbs pumped the stove still higher. Suddenly Mrs. Stubbs whipped the cushion off a chair and disclosed a ...

— The Garden Party • Katherine Mansfield

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