JUICE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does juice up mean? 

• JUICE UP (verb)
  The verb JUICE UP has 1 sense:

1. make more interesting or lively

  Familiarity information: JUICE UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUICE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make more interesting or lively

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

ginger up; jazz up; juice up; pep up

Context example:

pep up your paper

Hypernyms (to "juice up" is one way to...):

animate; enliven; invigorate; liven; liven up (make lively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

He said the twin effects of plant physiology in the U.S. Southeast and precipitation anomalies caused by atmospheric warming farther north in the Mississippi basin are conspiring to juice up the future flood statistics in equal proportion.

(Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation)