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vamp
noun
1 vamp
A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men.
synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamper.
Roget 854:
fop,
fine gentleman;
swell;
dandy,
dandiprat†;
exquisite,
coxcomb,
beau,
macaroni,
blade,
blood,
buck,
man about town,
fast man;
fribble,
milliner†;
Jemmy Jessamy†,
carpet knight;
masher,
dude.
fine lady,
coquette;
flirt,
vamp.
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Dutch: brutale meid, fatale vrouw, verleidster, femme fatale, vamp
Polish: zalotnica, kokieta
2 vamp
An improvised musical accompaniment.
3 vamp
Piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe.
verb
1 vamp
Make up:
— Vamp up an excuse for not attending the meeting.
synonym: vamp up.
Roget 660:
return to the original state;
recover,
rally,
revive;
come come to,
come round,
come to oneself;
pull through,
weather the storm,
be oneself again;
get well,
get round,
get the better of,
get over,
get about;
rise from one's ashes,
rise from the grave;
survive
etc.
(outlive)
110;
resume,
reappear;
come to,
come to life again;
live again,
rise again.
heal,
skin over,
cicatrize;
right itself.
restore,
put back,
place in statu quo [Lat.];
reinstate,
replace,
reseat,
rehabilitate,
reestablish,
reestate†,
reinstall.
reconstruct,
rebuild,
reorganize,
reconstitute;
reconvert;
renew,
renovate;
regenerate;
rejuvenate.
redeem,
reclaim,
recover,
retrieve;
rescue
etc.
(deliver)
672.
redress,
recure†;
cure,
heal,
remedy,
doctor,
physic,
medicate;
break of;
bring round,
set on one's legs.
resuscitate,
revive,
reanimate,
revivify,
recall to life;
reproduce
etc.
163;
warm up;
reinvigorate,
refresh
etc.
689.
make whole,
redintegrate†;
recoup
etc.
790;
make good,
make all square;
rectify,
correct;
put right,
put to rights,
set right,
set to rights,
set straight;
set up;
put in order
etc.
(arrange)
60;
refit,
recruit;
fill up,
fill up the ranks;
reinforce.
repair;
put in repair,
remanufacture,
put in thorough repair,
put in complete repair;
retouch,
refashion,
botch†,
vamp,
tinker,
cobble;
do up,
patch up,
touch up,
plaster up,
vamp up;
darn,
finedraw†,
heelpiece†;
stop a gap,
stanch,
staunch,
caulk,
calk,
careen,
splice,
bind up wounds.
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Roget 140:
change,
alter,
vary,
wax and wane;
modulate,
diversify,
qualify,
tamper with;
turn,
shift,
veer,
tack,
chop,
shuffle,
swerve,
warp,
deviate,
turn aside,
evert,
intervert†;
pass to,
take a turn,
turn the corner,
resume.
work a change,
modify,
vamp,
superinduce;
transform,
transfigure,
transmute,
transmogrify,
transume†;
metamorphose,
ring the changes.
innovate,
introduce new blood,
shuffle the cards;
give a turn to,
give a color to;
influence,
turn the scale;
shift the scene,
turn over a new leaf.
recast
etc.
146;
reverse
etc.
218;
disturb
etc.
61;
convert into
etc.
144.
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2 vamp
Piece (something old) with a new part:
— Vamp up an old speech.
synonym: vamp up.
3 vamp
Act seductively with (someone).
4 vamp
Provide (a shoe) with a new vamp:
— Revamp my old boots.
synonym: revamp.
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