psych up
Example Sentences
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It is an argument that, at the very least, jibes with the person who greets each football player as he gets off the bus and who races onto the field to psych up the “polis.”
From New York Times
Wilson, another Ivy Leaguer, was a fine historian and a visionary president who became too remote and ineffectual to psych up the electorate.
From Seattle Times
Perhaps foolishly, this week I tried to psych up my son, who isn’t looking forward to returning to his state elementary school in Beijing and those new characters.
From New York Times
"As Freud said to Jung in Vienna, you can psych up too much for a darts match."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.