boost

Meaning

Noun

1. A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb.
2. Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance.
3. A coordinate transformation that changes velocity.
4. A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers.

Verb

1. To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
2. To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming obstacles.
3. (slang) To steal.
4. To jump-start a vehicle by using cables to connect the battery in a running vehicle to the battery in a vehicle that won't start.
5. To give a booster shot to.
6. To amplify; to signal boost.

Synonyms

promote

support

increase

advance

lift

encourage

raise

encouragement

further

push

hike

reinforce

heighten

help

supplement

hoist

promotion

augment

improve

hike up

intensify

elevate

strengthen

back

🔙

rise

actuation

bolster

supercharge

subvention

assist

backing

shove

amplify

furtherance

propulsion

cost increase

brace

enhance

prop

impulse

underpin

rest

buttress

bear out

establish

exalt

favour

fortify

forward

foster

goose

🪿

growing

growth

hand

✋

heave

heave up

hold up

hunch

impetus

impulsion

increment

indorse

jerk

jog

jostle

launch

magnify

modillion

nourish

nurture

optimize

patronage

play

play up

potentiate

preferment

prop up

push up

ratify

reactivate

reconfirm

revive

reward

rob

second

2nd

sharpen

shoot

shoplift

speed-up

sponsor

sprag

spur

stand by

step up

stick

streamline

subsidise

subsidize

subsidy

substantiate

surge

talk big

thrust

thruster

toughen

transistorize

trellis

truss

undergird

underlay

underwrite

up

🆙

validate

vegetation

verify

vouch

apotheose

apotheosise

apotheosize

juvenescence

stick by

force up

motivation

reinforcement

officialise

auxesis

lifehack

outcall

subvent

transistorise

lifting pressure

boost motor

propelling booster

auxiliary boost

acceleration

accredit

accretion

accumulation

add to

adhere

advancement

affirm

aid

allowance

ascertain

assistance

assistor

augmentation

authenticate

backstay

back up

benefit

boast

bolster up

boom

💥

brace up

brag

build

buildup

carry

cart

cement

certify

clean

clean and jerk

comfort

compound

confirm

consolidate

contribution

corroborate

document

dramatize

drive

endorse

escalate

escalation

Pronounced as (IPA)

/buːst/

Etymology

Unknown. The verb is first recorded 1815; the noun, 1825. Compare Scots boost (“to move; drive off; shoo away”), bost, boast (“to threaten; scold”), Middle English boosten, bosten (“to threaten”).