ramp up

1. 1.

   bolster or strengthen

   “We worked up courage”

   “build up confidence”

   “ramp up security in the airports”

   Synonymsbuild upwork upbuild

   Broaderincrease

Questions about ramp up

What does ramp up mean?

ramp up means "bolster or strengthen".

What is another word for ramp up?

Close synonyms include build up, work up, build. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ramp up a common word?

ramp up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.