WHOOPED Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

whooped

verb

past tense of whoop

as in shouted

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Men shouted abuse from car windows or tried to bribe him with money, drugs, even girlfriends.

— Robb Report, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026
McMillan was aware of his big game in the moment on Sunday, and even shouted out Smith on the sideline, shoving his face in a camera and letting out some playful bravado like Smith once did.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026

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Scores of new fathers kissed their babies for the first time, couples cried and embraced and hundreds of parents let out a collective sigh of relief as the crew disembarked on the north end of the Coronado peninsula.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
As the scale read 170 pounds, Whitty cupped her mouth with her hands and cried tears of joy.

— Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026

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Fans shrieked and hollered as every player in the realmwide war — Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), Prince Daemon (Matt Smith), the Sea Snake (Steve Toussaint) and his nemesis Lohar (Abigail Thorn) — popped up.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 June 2026
As the noise-rap-electro act Jane Remover shrieked and pleaded through a 90-minute marathon set at the Fonda on Thursday night, one very young couple dressed right out of a conservative‘s nightmare — gender-ambiguous, purple hair, facial piercings — tapped me on the shoulder.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026

Definition of shrieked

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SpaceX’s Starship rocket thundered into the sky over South Texas early Monday.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026
The stadium thundered on beneath the lights while, inside booths and trucks, the people responsible for sending it all across the nation were abruptly working half-blind, half-connected and entirely on instinct.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

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