dial up

See also: dialup and dial-up

English

Verb

dial up (third-person singular simple present dials up, present participle dialing up or dialling up, simple past and past participle dialed up or dialled up)

  1. To telephone, to call on the telephone.
  2. To connect a computer to a modem.
  3. To increase the level (of something) by turning a dial, or (figuratively) as if by turning a dial.
    These comments are guaranteed to dial up the animosity.
    • 2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
      Think Bernie Sanders versus Kamala Harris, but dialled up to France where revolution is part of the national psyche.

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