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Webster 1913 Edition


Sob

Sob

(sŏb)
,
Verb.
T.
[See
Sop
.]
To soak.
[Obs.]
Mortimer.

Sob

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sobbed
(sŏbd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Sobbing
.]
[OE.
sobben
; akin to AS.
seófian
,
siófian
, to complain, bewail,
seófung
,
siófung
, sobbing, lamentation; cf. OHG.
sūftōn
,
sūftjōn
, to sigh, MHG.
siuften
,
siufzen
, G.
seufzen
, MHG.
sūft
a sigh, properly, a drawing in of breath, from
sūfen
to drink, OHG.
sūfan
. Cf.
Sup
.]
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.
Sobbing
is the same thing [as sighing], stronger.
Bacon.
She sighed, she
sobbed
, and, furious with despair.
She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
Dryden.

Sob

,
Noun.
1.
The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
Break, heart, or choke with
sobs
my hated breath.
Dryden.
2.
Any sorrowful cry or sound.
The tremulous
sob
of the complaining owl.
Wordsworth.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sob

SOB

,
Verb.
I.
To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with deep sorrow or with tears. She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and furious wtih despair, she rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

Definition 2024


sob

sob

See also: SOB

English

Noun

sob (plural sobs)

  1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
Translations
Derived terms

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

  1. (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.
    • Dryden
      She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
  2. (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.
    "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.
Synonyms
  • See also Wikisaurus:weep
Translations

Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

  1. To soak.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)

Anagrams


Czech

sob

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔp/

Noun

sob m

  1. reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)

Declension


Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sob/
  • Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

  1. (neologism, nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)

Synoyms

Antonyms

  • supren (up, upwards)
  • (neologism, nonstandard) sor (up, upwards)

Lojban

Rafsi

sob

  1. rafsi of sobde.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (under, below).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsob/
  • Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

  1. under

Antonyms


Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sob m (Cyrillic spelling соб)

  1. reindeer

See also


Tzotzil

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔʔm̥/

Noun

sob

  1. early morning

Adjective

sob

  1. of early morning

References


Volapük

Noun

sob (plural sobs)

  1. soap

Declension