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crank up

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crank up
verb:transitive:plus_adverb
1 [+hearing aid] subir; [+music] poner más fuerte
Just crank up your hearing aid a peg or two ...May's warm weather, which caused Americans to crank up their air conditioners Around midnight they suddenly cranked up the music again
to crank up the volume subir el volumen
Someone cranked up the volume of the public address system
2 (intensify) [+campaign, bombing] intensificar
The incident that cranked up the fear was the murder of Brian Smith The legal authorities cranked up the investigation

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