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Verb: ramp up
  1. Bolster or strengthen
    "ramp up security in the airports";
    - build up, work up, build
     
  2. Increase or rise sharply
    "Prices ramped up during the crisis"

Derived forms: ramping up, ramped up, ramps up

Type of: increase

Encyclopedia: Ramp up