pump
noun
an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
has pumped
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present perfectof pump (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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RTX said it has pumped about $900 million into the Tucson plant and two other factories over the past three years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
AI spending has pumped up the business of chip companies, makers of servers and other tech hardware as well as producers of memory chips and data storage systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Netflix's deal with BTS includes exclusive rights to live stream the show, as well as a documentary on the band's reunion - a marketing triumph given the billions it has pumped into Korean entertainment.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
Johnson, squeezed into a wig so tight we get a vicarious headache, has pumped up his deltoids to nearly reach his prosthetic cauliflower ears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
Here this exemplary female, who has pumped up so much fortitude and virtue from the depths of the Peruvian mines, rises from her cushioned property to see Mrs Chick to the door.
From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
