What is another word for upped?

Pronunciation: [ˈʌpt] (IPA)

"Upped" is a word that commonly signifies an increase or improvement in something. However, there are several synonyms for this word that can be used interchangeably depending on the context in which it is being used. Some of these synonyms include elevated, heightened, boosted, raised, enhanced, advanced, intensified, and upgraded. Using these words will add variety to your writing and make it more interesting. For example, rather than saying "I upped my game", you could say "I heightened my skills", "I boosted my performance" or even "I upgraded my abilities". These synonyms allow you to express the meaning of "upped" in a more diverse and creative way.

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Usage examples for Upped

As of this date, its capital stock remains at $15,000; we upped the surplus to $55,000 and upped the undivided profits to about $15,000. The deposits now run considerably over half a million.
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Durham, Andrew Everett
And Mr. Worthington's features harmonized perfectly with this costume-those of a successful, ambitious man who followed custom and convention blindly; clean-shaven, save for reddish chops, blue eyes of extreme keenness, and thin-upped mouth which had been tightening year by year as the output of the Worthington Minx increased.
"Coniston, Book I."
Winston Churchill
"And get your rating upped to a lieutenant," Mother Corey observed.
"Police Your Planet"
Lester del Rey

Famous quotes with Upped

  • That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.
    Patricia Highsmith
  • I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
    Pat Paulsen
  • I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.
    John Raitt
  • Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
    David Foster Wallace
  • Since it is hardly likely that contemporary critics seriously mean to bar prose narratives that are unrealistic from the domain of literature, one suspects that a special standard is being applied to sexual themes. … There is nothing conclusive in the well-known fact that most men and women fall short of the sexual prowess that people in pornography are represented as enjoying; that the size of organs, number and duration of orgasms, variety and feasibility of sexual powers, and amount of sexual energy all seem grossly exaggerated. Yes, and the spaceships and the teeming planets depicted in science-fiction novels don’t exist either. The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography or science-fiction from being literature. … The materials of the pornographic books that count as literature are, precisely, one of the extreme forms of human consciousness. Undoubtedly, many people would agree that the sexually obsessed consciousness can, in principle, enter into literature as an art form. … But then they usually add a rider to the agreement which effectively nullifies it. They require that the author have the proper “distance” from his obsessions for their rendering to count as literature. Such a standard is sheer hypocrisy, revealing one again that the values commonly applied to pornography are, in the end, those belonging to psychiatry and social affairs rather than to art. (Since Christianity upped that ante and concentrated on sexual behavior as the root of virtue, everything pertaining to sex has been a “special case” in our culture, evoking particularly inconsistent attitudes.) Van Gogh’s paintings retain their status as art even if it seems his manner of painting owed less to a conscious choice of representational means than to his being deranged and actually seeing reality the way he painted it. … What makes a work of pornography part of the history of art rather than of trash is not distance, the superimposition of a consciousness more conformable to that of ordinary reality upon the “deranged consciousness” of the erotically obsessed. Rather, it is the originality, thoroughness, authenticity, and power of that deranged consciousness itself, as incarnated in a work.
    Susan Sontag

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