Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Sob
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
She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
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.
Definition 2024
sob
sob
See also: SOB
English
Noun
sob (plural sobs)
Translations
a cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath
|
|
Derived terms
Verb
sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)
- (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.
- Dryden
- She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
- Dryden
- (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.
- "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:weep
Translations
weep with convulsive gasps
|
|
say (something) while sobbing
|
|
Etymology 2
See sop.
Verb
sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)
- To soak.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
Anagrams
Czech
sob
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔp/
Noun
sob m
- reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)
Declension
Declension of sob
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sob/
- Hyphenation: sob
Adverb
sob
- (neologism, nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
- 1993, Jorge Camacho, La Majstro kaj Martinelli, Iltis Saarbrücken:
-
Ni saltu sob antaŭ ol venos fruemaj promenantoj.
- Let's jump down before the early promenaders come.
-
Ni saltu sob antaŭ ol venos fruemaj promenantoj.
-
Synoyms
- malsupren (“down, downwards”)
Antonyms
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
Antonyms
Tzotzil
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔʔm̥/
Noun
sob
Adjective
sob
- of early morning
References
- Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.