Usually means: Prepare mentally for high performance.
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▸ verb:  (transitive) To motivate, encourage or mentally (emotionally) prepare.

Similar:
hype up, psych, psyche, charge up, encourage, perk up, urge on, amp up, motivate, warm up, more...

Opposite:
demotivate, discourage, deflate, dishearten

Phrases:
psych yourself up, psych myself up, more...

Adjectives:
upstart, upright, elate, overtopping, out, uplevel, jack, well up, up, upcast, upstage

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Similar:
hype up, psych, psyche, charge up, encourage, perk up, urge on, amp up, motivate, warm up, more...

Opposite:
demotivate, discourage, deflate, dishearten

Phrases:
psych yourself up, psych myself up, more...

Adjectives:
upstart, upright, elate, overtopping, out, uplevel, jack, well up, up, upcast, upstage



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