Meaning

simple past and past participle of amp.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of amp
2. Activated, as with electric power.
3. (colloquial) Excited or full of energy, especially to excess.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Hawk ate it, and ate it again and again, and failed four times before regulation time ran out. But Hawk kept going; the crowd was amped to see history made, and Tony was amped to make it

Word Forms

• more amped
• most amped

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When Should You Use Amped?

Use amped when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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