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verb

Pump v. t. (past & past part. pumped; pres. part. pumping)

To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.

To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.

Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc. "But pump not me for politics."

Pump v. i. To work, or raise water, a pump.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pumped" Quotes from Famous Books

... But while Roy pumped a new shell into place, the erect animal suddenly stumbled and then with a snort whirled and sprang toward the trees. This time when the rifle sounded the great antlers seemed to rise higher and then the moose lunged forward ...

— On the Edge of the Arctic - An Aeroplane in Snowland • Harry Lincoln Sayler

... of the park young Crossjay overtook him, and after acting the pumped one a trifle more than needful, cried: "I say, Mr. Whitford, there's Miss ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... on the mainmast. These were centrifugal pumps, capable of discharging 2,000 gallons a minute each. One was placed in the engine room, another with its suction in No. 3 hold, and when these two compartments were pumped dry, it was found that in No. 3 hold the leak was easily kept under, while in the engine room there was no leak at all. The ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 • Various

... me. I've one or two wounds, mere scratches, George, but I feel all pumped out. I'm like one of those empty wine-skins that you read about, empty, all dried up, and ...

— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler

... been in my time a great Epistolatory scribbler, but the passion, and with it the facility, at length wears out, and it must be pumped up again by the heavy machinery of duty or gratitude, when it should run free. I have read your 'Fall of Cambria' with as much pleasure as I did your 'Messiah.' Your Cambrian Poem I shall be tempted to repeat oftenest, as human poems take me in a mood more frequently congenial than divine. The character ...

— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle

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