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Definition of Pumped
1. Adjective. Tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline. "He was so pumped he couldn't sleep"
Definition of Pumped
1. Verb. (past of pump) ¹
2. Adjective. (slang) : pumped up ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pumped
1. pump [v] - See also: pump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pumped
Literary usage of Pumped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irrigation and Drainage: Principles and Practice of Their Cultural Phases by Franklin Hiram King (1898)
"There were short times occasionally, however, when more water than this was
pumped, but the capacity of the siphon was such as to cause it then to discharge ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"Haidarabad is now plentifully supplied with water, which is pumped up from the
Indus by powerful machinery, located on the river bank at Gidu. ..."
3. Irrigation and Drainage: Principles and Practice of Their Cultural Phases by Franklin Hiram King (1898)
"There were short times occasionally, however, when more water than this was
pumped, but the capacity of the siphon was such as to cause it then to discharge ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Then, in its gaseous form, it is pumped by the machine into the condensers and
liquefied. The brine-cooler consists of a double pipe-coil. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"... MANUFACTURE] PAPER double-effect 20 Ib, a triple-effect 30 Tb. and so on.1 The
liquor to be concentrated is pumped from the storage tanks to the ..."
6. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"A strong solution of ammonia is then pumped to the top of an analyzing ...
The solution is now pumped through a horizontal heater, where it meets with the ..."
7. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... barrels made to draw from the hold or lowest part of the vessel, and in this
way the same may be pumped much more effectually than by any other means. ..."