rev
verb [transitive, intransitive]- rev (something) (up)
when you rev an engine or it revs, it runs quickly (使)快速运转 The taxi driver revved up his engine. 出租车司机把发动机发动起来。 I could hear the car revving outside. 我可以听到外面汽车发动的声音。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRev is used with these nouns as the subject:- engine
- engine
- motorcycle
Word Originearly 20th cent.: abbreviation of revolution.