upboost

Verb

upboost (third-person singular simple present upboosts, present participle upboosting, simple past and past participle upboosted)

1. (rare, transitive) to boost up
   • A few boostings are percieved^([sic]) as upboostings, but are realized in such a way that the auditively upboosted syllable is placed below the surrounding stressed syllables, and acoustically looks more like a downboosting, see fig. 11.1995, Jørgen Rischel, Hans Basbøll, Aspects of Danish prosody
   • On the other hand, for the application of electrodynamic tethers to upboost spacecraft, and, in particular, the International Space Station (ISS), we in general need to have currents much above 1 A (for example of the order of 10 A) to …2002, Geophysics and space physics, Volume 25, Part 3