turbocharge

== English == === Etymology === From turbo- +‎ charge. === Verb === turbocharge (third-person singular simple present turbocharges, present participle turbocharging, simple past and past participle turbocharged) (transitive) To increase the power of (an internal combustion engine, either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the exhaust air (through using a turbocharger). (transitive, colloquial) To make faster or more powerful. 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.11: Six weeks after that moment, in a darkened classroom at Oceanside Community College, I would learn via an anger management class video about the cardiology, neurology, and endocrinology of rage—about how, as I reached for that wrench, my hypothalamus was instant-messaging my adrenal glands to secrete cortisol and adrenaline. How stored fat was dumping into my bloodstream for an energy turbocharge. How my heart was pumping overtime, sending a surge of blood to my muscles and lungs in preparation for what that instructional video called "the evolutionary miracle of fight-or-flight." That morning, I saw Hay and took the former option. 2024 Mark Walsh, A packed courtroom for the Trump ballot case, in: The Christian Science Monitor, February 8 2024 Two scholars who are not here are William Baude of the University of Chicago law school and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. Minn., whose article “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” turbocharged the disqualification debate when it was posted online last August. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== supercharge