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PUMPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
Example:
he was so pumped he couldn't sleep
Synonyms:
pumped; pumped-up; pumped up; wired
Classified under:
Similar:
tense (in or of a state of physical or nervous tension)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb pump
Context examples:
Day after day the boats lowered and were swallowed up almost ere they touched the water, while we on board pumped the horn at regular intervals and every fifteen minutes fired the bomb gun.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Recovery occurs as Ca2+ is pumped out of the cell by the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) or is returned to the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) by sarco(endo)plasmic Ca2+ -ATPase (SERCA) pumps on the non-junctional region of the SR.
(Cardiac Muscle Contraction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
