PIPED UP Synonyms: 30 Similar and Opposite Words

piped up

verb

past tense of pipe up

as in sounded off

to voice one's opinions freely with force don't worry, he'll pipe up if he feels he's being overlooked

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Recent Examples of piped up But remarks made last week by Bruce Brown, an eight-year NBA veteran fighting for a roster spot with the New York Knicks, garnered enough attention online that the league piped up. — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 15 Oct. 2026 At this, Shawn, who sat with his father at the end of the jetty, piped up. — Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026 Garrett Tyrrell of Durango, sitting to her right, piped up. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026 The water is piped up to the data center for liquid cooling of the servers. — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2026 Republican Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz piped up in defense of Kimmel’s right to free speech without governmental interference. — Sarah Stankorb, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for piped up

Verb

Multiple season-ticket holders sounded off on season-ticket deadlines, saying in the past they were required to begin 25% payments in December to receive the perk of 20 free tickets for certain games.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2026
Her video also gained attention on X, where users sounded off in quote-tweets and replies, boosting the tweet to over 9 million views in three days.

— Owen Carry, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of sounded off

Verb

Children shouted, amped up on sugar and adrenaline, while orange leaves crunched under their feet.

— Isa Mudannayake, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Farrelly was on hand to introduce the movie and shouted out his star, newcomer Anthony Ippolito, who has already earned praise for his portrayal of Stallone.

— Ellise Shafer, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of shouted

Verb

Cat Uden, a longtime resident who has opposed the project from the beginning, spoke up again Wednesday night.

— Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
The statement, in which Bryan supposedly spoke up defending his stance from the night before, came from an X account that purports to belong to the singer but does not.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of spoke up

Verb

Another girl cried non-stop—possibly from fear and nervousness rather than sorrow.

— Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
At one point, Blair cried with tears running down her face, and her lawyer Reitzas moved to wipe them from her face as Blair remained handcuffed during the proceedings.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of cried

Verb

Students at a Pennsylvania high school spoke out Friday after their district suspended all high school and middle school sports amid an investigation.

— Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
In Hale’s teens, an adult leader of his Boy Scout troop spoke out against the creation of a bus lane.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of spoke out

Verb

Moshier remembers when the team stopped at a fast-food restaurant on a road trip and Murphy yelled for everyone to get back to the bus.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
Hill yelled at Vikings linebacker Eric Wilson after Wilson was accidentally knocked into him during Minnesota's game against Miami.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of yelled

Verb

The president talked up Jackson and Senate candidate Mike Collins as part of the White House effort to boost GOP enthusiasm in the upcoming elections.

— DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Like China, Russia has talked up the prospect of its own Starlink alternative for several years, but the program was accelerated earlier this year when SpaceX cut off Russian access to Starlink.

— Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of talked up

Verb

In 1921, a small Japanese company called Shimano began making bicycle freewheels in Osaka.

— Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
There are also plans afoot by the French defense procurement agency (DGA) called SNA3G, which are preliminary plans for an eventual replacement of the Suffren-class in the future.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026