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pumped

(pŭmpt)

adj. Slang

Emotionally excited; enthusiastic or eager. Often used with up: football players who were pumped up about the championship game.

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pumped - tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline; "we were really pumped up for the race"; "he was so pumped he couldn't sleep"

pumped up, pumped-up, wired

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

tense - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension

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Then we pumped with the feeble head-pump, drew water with buckets, and in this way managed in time to pour lots of Indian Ocean into the main hatch.

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Over called to his wife, who brought into the yard a pail made of some kind of baked dough, and Dorothy pumped the pail full of cool, sweet milk and drank it eagerly.

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