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speak up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb speak up has 2 senses
- speak up(v = verb.communication) animadvert, opine, sound off, speak out - express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation; "John spoke up at the meeting" is one way to declare
- speak up(v = verb.communication) Array - speak louder; raise one's voice; "The audience asked the lecturer to please speak up" is one way to mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue speak up
THESAURUS
speak up
affirm, affront, allege, announce, annunciate, appear, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, beard, bell the cat, bite the bullet, brave, brazen, brazen out, break silence, come forth, confront, contend, declare, enunciate, express, face, face the music, face up, face up to, front, have, have no secrets, hold, insist, issue a manifesto, lay down, maintain, manifesto, materialize, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, open up, pipe up, predicate, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, put, put it, run the gauntlet, say, say out, set at defiance, set down, speak, speak out, stand for, stand on, stand up to, state, submit, take a stand, take the floorROGET THESAURUS
speak up
Loudness
VB be loud, peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, blare, fulminate, roar, resound, speak up, shout, bellow, rend the air, rend the skies, fill the air, din in the ear, ring in the ear, thunder in the ear, pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the ears, split the head, deafen, stun, faire le diable a quatre, make one's windows shake, rattle the windows, awaken the echoes, startle the echoes, wake the dead.
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