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vamp up

verb

To repair; mend.

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revamp vamp fabricate manufacture cook up make up invent

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Meanings

verbvamp up (third-person singular simple present vamps up, present participle vamping up, simple past and past participle vamped up)

present singular third person vamps up · participle present vamping up · participle past vamped up · past vamped up

To repair; mend.
Synonyms: revamp, vamp
To remake.
Synonyms: revamp
To make up; invent.
"Second one vamped up for the occasion. If you are clever and know your business you can fake a bone as easily as you can a photograph."
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo repair; mend.

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verbTo remake.

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More synonyms by meaning

verbpiece (something old) with a new part

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Broader

verbconcoct something artificial or untrue

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fabricate manufacture cook up make up invent vamp

Broader

think up think of dream up

Also see

cook up do up fabricate invent make up manufacture renovate revamp rework vamp

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

vamp up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vamp%20up

MLA

“vamp up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vamp%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vamp up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vamp%20up.

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