speak up
— phrasal verb with speak uk/spiːk/us/spiːk/verb spoke, spoken
B2 to speak in a louder voice so that people can hear you:
Could you speak up? We can't hear at the back.
More examples
- You'll have to speak up, I can't hear you.
- Stop muttering and speak up!
- You'll have to speak up a bit if you want everyone to hear you.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- croon
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- expressive
- hold the floor idiom
- loose
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- waffle
- yap
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