YAWP Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

yawp

verb

ˈyȯp

variants or yaup

Definition of yawp

as in to scream

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely stop yawping about your problems and try doing something to fix them

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Recent Examples of yawp Credit to the singer for expanding outside her usual vocal range, though, deploying an Imogen Heap–style yawp on this one. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024 After Glazer’s film cuts to black at the end, the music reemerges in a nightmarish march of yawping voices. — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023 And, finally, the restatement of the American Dream for a new century, just the way Walt Whitman yawped it in the streets of Manhattan. — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Mar. 2017

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She was awakened in the middle of the night by her barking dog and the sound of a woman screaming in the street.

— City News Service, Daily News, 19 Aug. 2026
Audio from her cousin's phone call to the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service captured 15-year-old Layan describing the chaotic scene around her, amid the sound of gunfire and screaming, before the call dropped.

— Frank Andrews, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of scream

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Kayley starts service with a positive attitude, hoping to give the guests no reason to complain.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2026
That Sean Payton won by 20 on the road and still spent a good chunk of his postgame presser either complaining, yammering about Jack Lemmon, or both, is a heck of a good sign.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of complain

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Hall wrote in his report that Hamilton lay down in the backseat of the police vehicle, moaning and not responding, prompting first responders to give him Narcan.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2026
After the guards left, the man continued to moan; his cellmates called for a doctor.

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of moan

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That’s when Way mutters the p-word — under his breath for plausible deniability, but certainly still with the intention of being heard, smirking at the sound of my laughter.

— Selome Hailu, Variety, 18 Aug. 2026
This was 1872, and the pious (and patronizing) commentators of the time muttered that Damien’s unvarnished personality was due to his simple farm upbringing in rural Belgium.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

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