build up β If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
jazz up β music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
juice up β the natural fluid, fluid content, or liquid part that can be extracted from a plant or one of its parts, especially of a fruit: orange juice.
pump up β an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
start up β the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
switch on β the act or process of switching on an ignition, light, appliance, etc.
turn on β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
work up β exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
invigorate β to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
strengthen β to make stronger; give strength to.
boost β If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
pep up β lively spirits or energy; vigor; animation.
galvanize β to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
motivate β to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
animate β Something that is animate has life, in contrast to things like stones and machines which do not.
empower β Give (someone) the authority or power to do something.
electrify β Charge with electricity; pass an electric current through.
reinforce β to strengthen with some added piece, support, or material: to reinforce a wall.
stimulate β to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
trigger β a small projecting tongue in a firearm that, when pressed by the finger, actuates the mechanism that discharges the weapon.
arm β Your arms are the two long parts of your body that are attached to your shoulders and that have your hands at the end.
enable β Give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something.
fortify β to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
goose β any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
innervate β to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
inspirit β to infuse spirit or life into; enliven.
prime β of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
quicken β to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
sustain β to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
