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.