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

Heck, there was even a moment where Brooks shouted out the crew member who was switching out his guitars mid-set.

— Rashad Alexander November 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2026
Soon after, a warden shook Guardado and shouted his name, but got no response and a medic then pronounced him dead.

— KIM CHANDLER, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of shouted

Verb

When a major renovation of Northeast High School appeared at risk, residents and local leaders spoke up.

— Tim Lonergan, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
Some people spoke up, while others, such as the man who’d been with Foreman when he was shot, remained silent, Townsend said.

— Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of spoke up

Verb

In the same announcement from Vogue, Wintour, who serves as the global chief content officer for Condé Nast and the global editorial director of Vogue, also spoke out.

— Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 5 Nov. 2026
In her Instagram Stories in May, Barbosu spoke out about the alleged violation.

— Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of spoke out

Verb

When the woman yelled at the driver to stop following her, the man shouted an expletive and threw a glass bottle into her car.

— Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2026
The kid was encouraged to dominate 5U beginner soccer kids by a father who yelled to keep the ball.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of yelled

Verb

Gulf officials at a summit in Bahrain talked up the need for diplomacy to solve the region’s security crisis, yet a sense of helplessness hung over the atmosphere.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
In Sarasota, Donalds talked up Florida, praised DeSantis and criticized Jolly.

— Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of talked up

Verb

But on November 29, 1777, a small group of Spanish settlers moved into the area to establish a civilian agricultural town, called El Pueblo de San Jose, to provide food for the missions and presidios.

— John Ramos, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Their calculations used a feature of the model called a universal scaling function, which describes how physical quantities with dimensions, such as length, change over cosmic time.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026