YELPING Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in squealing

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verb

present participle of yelp

as in shrieking

to cry out loudly and emotionally yelped with surprise when everything fell off the closet shelf and onto his head

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Recent Examples of yelping

Adjective

The Dog Pound’s inhabitants will do more yelping than woofing. — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026

Verb

In body camera footage of the moment, the dogs can be heard yelping as officers open the back door of the vehicle. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 15 June 2026 How much yelping should a hunter do? — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026 Cantanucci’s property line is 72 feet away, but her hearing is such that the sound of balls bouncing and people yelping jumped the hedgerows. — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026 On Monday night, Witt had one of the biggest stars in the game yelping like a Little Leaguer. — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026 Kids pulled in on sleds by their parents are yelping in glee, slipping and sliding around jaws of ice. — Stephanie Pearson, Outside, 19 Feb. 2026 Tomasi can be heard yelping and grabs at her leg when struck, the video shows. — Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026 Start the day with yelping sea lions and a Coffee Girl latte at Pier 39, a 150-year-old former cannery, before hitting the town. — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for yelping

Adjective

Night Country‘s Kali Reis as a traditional Resident Evil commando type, there goes I, Tonya‘s Paul Walter Hauser as a whiny, weaselly corporate executive — and others who simply start sprouting tentacles out of their faces.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026
And before the perpetually whiny and moronic peanut gallery says that sports teams have special nights all the time, that’s true, but celebrating heritage, or veterans who fought and died for this country is just an eency weency bit different than force-feeding the gay agenda at a ball game!

— Tomi Lahren OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026

Definition of whiny

Verb

On the lawn, a mechanical bull bounced shrieking children into the air.

— Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026
The addition of the electric guitar, drums and Jack White’s shrieking vocals transformed it into a rock song, while also keeping its signature folksiness.

— Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of shrieking

Adjective

Actor Mark Ruffalo, one of the deal’s most strident critics, has vowed to continue the fight.

— Todd Spangler, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
The framework from Democratic Majority for Israel takes a less strident view on Netanyahu, who faces another election this month.

— Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of strident

Verb

Research on hitting objects does not support it as a way to reduce anger, and there are too few studies of screaming to conclude its effects.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
Onstage, Slayyyter, whose real name is Catherine Grace Garner, is a force, constantly moving around the stage, thrashing her head along to the music and screaming the lyrics to her songs.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of screaming

Adjective

Donald, Mark, Willie, Billy, and Tony — practically everyone in Hollis within shouting distance of 203rd Street was laughing at me at earsplitting volume.

— Stephen A. Smith, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2023
The Wall, though, will be delightfully old school in a cap tip to the court-hugging, earsplitting, rowdy venues of college basketball’s glory days.

— Bryce MillerColumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2023

Definition of earsplitting

Verb

Each of its elements began, long ago, in the loamy earth, hatching and creeping or slipping, slick and squealing, from the womb of the mind.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
Video shot by OnScene TV on August 9 showed people rushing in and out of the store, some carrying merchandise, as roaring engines and squealing tires are heard in the background.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of squealing

Adjective

There are two types of TBIs, penetrating and non-penetrating.

— Connie Etermadi, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.

— Hisham Matar, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024

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