sob

Speech parts

1. sob - Noun

2. sob - Verb

Meaning

To soak.

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.

The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.

Any sorrowful cry or sound.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sobbing breathlessness lech git pule bounder rogue howl squall blackguard gush cur bawl keen tear
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Antonyms

twitter howl hee-haw agreement acceptance silence
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Hypernyms

cry crying weeping weep dyspnea dyspnoea

Phrases with the word

sob act give someone a sob story sob-ray

Derivatives

sobbed sobbing

Examples

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. Carl Sandburg

No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite. Sri Chinmoy

Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. Camille Paglia

Painting for me is merely a means of forgetting life. It is a cry in the night. A sob broken off. A strangled laugh. Georges Rouault

Time found our tired love sleeping, And kissed away his breath; But what should we do weeping, Though light love sleep to death? We have drained his lips at leisure, Till there's not left to drain A single sob of pleasure, A single pulse of pain. Algernon Charles Swinburne

For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. Virginia Woolf

Close letter words and terms

soaringly soave Soay sob act sob sister SOB stew