Vamp up : (좋아보이게) 수리하다, 보수하다, 수선하다, 개선하다, 고치다, (영화/노래등)리메이크하다, 새로만들다
Revamp : (보통 더 보기 좋도록) 개조[수리]하다
A vamp : 요부, 꽃뱀, (신발) 상부 장식, 상부 커버
1)
to vamp something up, to make something look more attractive, more exciting
this essay is okay, but you need to vamp it up with a few more adjectives and adverbs and maybe a couple of idioms would help you to vamp up your essay
to vamp, to make something old look better
to revamp, the officce being revamped, they are putting in new technology they are making it look nice and they are making it easier to use
to revamp an old building
maybe you have got an old in your garage and maybe you could revamp it to make it look like it was new
you could take an old story and vamp it up to rework it, to make a new version of it
I vamped the idea by putting bells and whistles on it
the reporter had very little information so he vamped it up with ideas based on rumor
to make somehting look more impressive
to refurbish
to make look more tempting
to mkae look more interesting and more enchanting and more beguiling
to improve something to make it better, to repair
he vamped up the engine, he put some new parts in it that made it go much better
you could vamp up your computerd by adding some extra memory
2)
Let's see technically, I think a vamp can also means a covering for a shoe, the upper part of a shoe
the idea of to vamp something up , to make it look new and exciting becuase I you change the upper part of the shoe then it looks completely different
3)
notice, a vamp, this is normally used to talk about a woman who is confident and uses her attractiveness and her
sexiness to get men to do what she wants
this is rather like a coquette
a vamp, she was vamping it up
the actress was vamping it up to trying to get a new roles
she is making herself look good so that she can get what she wants
this is the one is rather sexist though
the picutures of the actress vamping it up on the red carpet to act like a vamp
I think if you use this word vamp about a woman, I think it's propably a bit pejorative and a bit disapproving
a vamp, to vamp sombody who uses their seductive while on someone else
to ack like a vamp
vamping for the camera
a vamp could advance sombody into doing something to look very sexy and very loving and romantic in order to
ge what you want
Formality : 4.5 for vamp
Formality : 5 for revamp
Formality : 4 for a vamp for woman
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