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amping

/ˈæm.pɪŋ/

amping is the present participle and gerund of amp.

Meaning of amp

Verb

amp (third-person singular simple present amps, present participle amping, simple past and past participle amped)

  1. (colloquial, usually) To amplify.
    • He asked the disk jockey to amp it up.
  2. (colloquial, usually) To excite.
    • Well you're very amped up today, what's got you so excited?
  3. (colloquial, usually) To intensify or increase.
    • Amping the Justin Timberlake cameos and revving up Jiggytron 5000, these Peas want to be on Middle America's fickle plate — losing little dread-whippin' imaginativeness in the wizzash.2003, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 115, page 42
  4. (colloquial, usually) To connect to amplifiers.
    • and even the Velvet Underground were still only amping up conventional instruments2015, Kris Needs, Suicide: Dream Baby Dream, A New York City Story

Phrases with amping

Words that rhyme with amping

Questions about amping

What is amping the present participle and gerund of?
Amping is the present participle and gerund of amp.
How do you pronounce amping?
Amping is pronounced /ˈæm.pɪŋ/.

Words near amping in the dictionary

  1. amphurs
  2. amphycoelous
  3. ampicillin
  4. ampicillins
  5. ampilliform
  6. amping
  7. amping down
  8. amping up
  9. ampiroxicam
  10. ampitheater
  11. ampitheaters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amping (page history and authors); amp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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