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"To intensify or increase."
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"links": [
[
"intensify",
"intensify"
],
[
"increase",
"increase"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, usually with up) To intensify or increase."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"usually",
"with-up"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English colloquialisms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2015, Kris Needs, Suicide: Dream Baby Dream, A New York City Story",
"text": "and even the Velvet Underground were still only amping up conventional instruments",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To connect to amplifiers."
],
"links": [
[
"amplifiers",
"amplifiers"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, usually with up) To connect to amplifiers."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"usually",
"with-up"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/æmp/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æmp"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-amp.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amp.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amp.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amp.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-amp.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "ămp"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to amplify",
"word": "steigern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to amplify",
"word": "aufdrehen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to excite",
"word": "antreiben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to excite",
"word": "aufputschen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to intensify",
"word": "verstärken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to intensify",
"word": "hochtreiben"
}
],
"word": "amp"
}
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