speak out/up
— phrasal verb with speak uk/spiːk/us/spiːk/verb spoke, spoken
to give your opinion about something in public, especially on a subject that you have strong feelings about:
If no one has the courage to speak out against the system, things will never improve.
More examples
- They spoke out against the proposed legislation.
- Someone needs to speak up for women's rights.
- Several parents spoke out against the use of corporal punishment.
- If you have a problem with anything I've told you, then speak up now.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Expressing and asking opinions
- apothegm
- ask
- come out
- couch
- day
- editorialize
- far
- for my money idiom
- pronounce
- put
- put yourself across
- remark
- run
- run sth by sb
- screed
- soapbox
- sound off
- stake
- talk
- talk sth over
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