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vamp up

vamp up verb: to repair; mend.

Verb

vamp up (third-person singular simple present vamps up, present participle vamping up, simple past and past participle vamped up)

  1. To repair; mend.
    Synonyms:
    revamp, vamp
  2. To remake.
    Synonyms:
    revamp
  3. To make up; invent.
    • "Second one vamped up for the occasion. If you are clever and know your business you can fake a bone as easily as you can a photograph."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Synonyms of vamp up

Forms of vamp up

third-person singular presentvamps up
present participlevamping up
past participlevamped up
pastvamped up

Questions about vamp up

What does vamp up mean?
Vamp up means to repair; mend.
What part of speech is vamp up?
Vamp up is a verb.
What is the past tense of vamp up?
The past tense of vamp up is vamped up.

Words near vamp up in the dictionary

  1. vamoused
  2. vamouses
  3. vamousing
  4. vamp
  5. vamp trap
  6. vamp up
  7. vampdar
  8. vampdars
  9. vampdom
  10. vamped
  11. vamped up

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