What is "revved"

Usage examples of "revved".

This would have placed Baker near the intersection of Elm and Houston at the time he revved up his cycle, not 180 feet from it as was reconstructed.

There, was one bloke in my group, Trey, who was so hyper and revved up that he ended up doing everything the wrong way around.

We did so many jobs where we got really revved up, only for nothing to happen.

Usually, they tried for the full tankers as they revved up for the morning convoy, but were more likely to overshoot and blow up some jungle where their own troops were sniping from the other side.

Whenever another craft was sighted, which was rare, he revved up the engine and one of his machine gunners fired tracer rounds across its bow.

The engine caught, he revved blue smoke into the snow beyond the rear window.

An engine revved, and a section of runway one hundred feet wide and fifty feet long began to slide off to the side.

Then, as the engines revved just slightly, the amphibious aircraft rose from the water and taxied onto the concrete parking area.

Surely, someone who had been revved up by the excitement and fear that had to come with the act of robbing a bank at gunpoint must have left some essence of himself behind.

She stared at him in confusion as a propeller chopped the air, caught, and revved into full power.

Jak was dumped, moaning feebly, in the bottom of the boat, while the engine revved up.

With those words, he revved up the engine, which took some loud gunning of the gas pedal and shaking of the metal frame, before he took off with a wave out the window.

Caddie revved into some new gear that had probably lain dormant for a long time.