Sob

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To weep aloud with convulsive gasping; cry uncontrollably. See Synonyms at cry.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a sound resembling that of loud weeping.
  • v. To utter with sobs.
  • v. To put or bring (oneself) into a specified condition by sobbing: sob oneself to sleep.
  • n. The act or sound of sobbing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
  • v. to weep with convulsive gasps.
  • v. to say (something) while sobbing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To soak.
  • verb-intransitive. To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.
  • n. The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
  • n. Any sorrowful cry or sound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To sigh strongly with a sudden heaving of the breast or a kind of convulsive motion; weep with convulsive catchings of the breath.
  • To make a sound resembling a sob.
  • To give forth or utter with sobs; particularly, to say with sobbing.
  • In lute-playing, to deaden the tone of by damping the string, or relaxing the finger by which it is stopped.
  • n. A convulsive heaving of the breast and inspiration of breath, under the impulse of painful emotion, and accompanied with weeping; a strong or convulsive sigh. It consists of a short, convulsive, somewhat noisy respiratory movement.
  • n. A sound resembling the sobbing of a human being.
  • To sup; suck up.
  • To sop; soak with a liquid.
  • To frighten.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. weep convulsively
  • n. insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
  • n. a dyspneic condition
  • n. convulsive gasp made while weeping
  • Antonym
    laugh   
    Verb Form
    sobbed    sobbing    sobs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    weep    cry    unpleasant person    disagreeable person    dyspnoea    weeping    crying    tears   
    Variant
    sobbing    sobbed   
    Form
    sobbed    sobbing    sob stuff    sobby    sob story   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    soak    cry    singult    singultus    weep   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bob    Cobb    Job    Punjab    Rob    blob    bob    cob    cobb    dob   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gasp    wail    scream    lamentation    weep    yelp    whimper    spasm    cough    chuckle