amped

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   simple past and past participle of amp

2. 2

   Activated, as with electric power.

   • All four motors should be amped to check the loading on the motors before new motors are installed. The amp checks might reveal that a smaller size motor could be use
   • Two guitars were amped and miked, while a third space was empty and waiting for Kellan's guitar.
3. 3

   Excited or full of energy, especially to excess.

   • If I listen to fast music before I go out in a heat, it gets me too amped out and then I can't concentrate on my surfing.
   • But I didn't care. I was twenty-two years old. I was invincible. “Keep it going,” Sparky said at one point. He was too amped to sleep, so he turned on the radio and cranked the volume.
   • But whether the guy was fiddling too intently with the XM radio tuner or was simply too amped on NoDoz and cheap cigarettes, speeding along to a New Year's Eve party, he keeps driving.

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