speak up for sb/sth
— phrasal verb with speak uk/spiːk/us/spiːk/verb spoke, spoken
to support someone or something, especially by saying good things about him, her, or it:
She has often spoken up for the rights of working mothers.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Backing, supporting & defending
- -backed
- argumentation
- bale
- bale out
- bear
- behind every great/successful man there stands a woman idiom
- buttress
- carry
- countenance
- defensible
- endorse
- espouse
- fight your corner idiom
- speak
- stake
- stand by sb
- stand shoulder to shoulder with sb idiom
- strike
- sympathize
- sympathy
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