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vamps up

vamps up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of vamp up.

Meaning of vamp up

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

Questions about vamps up

What is vamps up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Vamps up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of vamp up.

Words near vamps up in the dictionary

  1. vamplets
  2. Vamplew
  3. Vamplews
  4. vampling
  5. vamps
  6. vamps up
  7. vamptastic
  8. vampy
  9. vampyr
  10. vampyre
  11. vampyrellid

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