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Pumped vs Pomped - What's the difference?

pumped | pomped |

As verbs the difference between pumped and pomped

is that pumped is past tense of pump while pomped is past tense of pomp.

As an adjective pumped

is : pumped up.

pumped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pump)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang): pumped up
  • pomped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pomp)

  • pomp

    English

    Noun

  • Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
  • * 1698 . "A person of quality" [Pierre Nicole]. Moral Essayes, Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties. Vol I, p95.
  • "'Tis a gross visible errour, which Tertullian teaches in his Book of Idolatry cap. 18. That all the marks of Dignity and Power, and all the ornaments annexed to Office, are forbid Christians, and that Jesus Christ hath plac'd all these things amongst the pomps of the Devil, since he himself appeared in a condition so far from all pomp and splendour."
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
  • The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
  • A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
  • * Addison
  • all the pomps of a Roman triumph

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a pompous display; to conduct.
  • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913)