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boostingverbpresent participle of boost to lift with effortboosted the child into her car seat heaving, hefting, hoisting, jacking (up), upheaving elevating, hiking, picking up, raising, rearing, uplifting, upping, upraising, uprearing depressing, dropping, loweringsinking, submerging, submersing to make greater in size, amount, or numbera promotion that boosted the number of interested customers milling about the showroom accelerating, adding (to), aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, building up, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, hyping, increasing, multiplying, pumping up, raising, stoking, supersizing, swelling, upping booming, jumping, skyrocketing, spikingbumping (up), ratcheting (up)also racheting (up)blowing up, dilating, distending, inflatingdrawing out, elongating, fleshing (out), lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretchingdeveloping, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingcomplementing, supplementingbeefing (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningmaximizingaccumulating, amassing, collectingfollowing up, parlaying abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, minifying, reducing, subtracting (from) abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningcompressing, condensing, constricting, contractingcutting back, retrenching to make markedly greater in measure or degreerecommended eating foods that boost the body's immunity to disease accentuating, amping (up), amplifying, beefing (up), consolidating, deepening, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifying, redoubling, stepping up, strengthening broadening, enlarging, expanding, extending, lengtheningaccelerating, hastening, quickeningemphasizing, pointing (up), sharpening, stressingaugmenting, enforcing, reinforcing(also reenforcing), restrengthening, supplementingmaximizingenlivening, jazzing (up)aggravating, exacerbating abating, moderating decreasing, diminishing, lessening, letting up (on), reducing, subduing, toning (down), weakeningdwindling, receding, subsiding, tapering (off), waningalleviating, easing, lightening to move from a lower to a higher place or positionboosted the box onto the top shelf craning, elevating, heaving, hefting, heightening, hiking, hoisting, jacking (up), lifting, perking (up), picking up, raising, taking up, upholding, uplifting, upping, upraising ascending, mounting, risingrearing, upending dropping, lowering descending, dipping, falling, pitching, plunging, slippingbearing, depressing, pressing, pushingsinking, submerging to provide publicity forboosted the singer's latest release with a round of appearances on all the talk and entertainment shows ballyhooing, hyping, pitching, plugging, promoting, publicizing, talking up, touting advertising, barking, merchandising(also merchandizing), sellingpushingacclaiming, hailing, lauding, praisingendorsing(also indorsing), plumping (for), plunking (for)or plonking (for)recommending, reviewingannouncing, broadcasting, publishing beating the drum (for) slangto take (something) without right and with an intent to keepthe woman was nabbed trying to boost a couple of bottles of perfume appropriating, filching, heisting, hooking, lifting, misappropriating, nicking(British slang), nipping, pilfering, pinching, pocketing, purloining, ripping off, snitching, stealing, swiping, thieving burglarizing, knocking over, robbinglooting, pillaging, plundering, sackingcarjacking, hijacking(also highjacking)picking, riflingpoaching, rustling, shopliftingcollaring, grabbing, grasping, nailing, seizing, snatching, takingmooching, spongingabducting, kidnapping(also kidnaping), shanghaiing, spiriting making away with, making off with, running off with, walking off with buying, purchasingbestowing, contributing, donating, giving, handing over, presenting |