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Sob   /sɑb/   Listen
noun
Sob  n.  
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."
2.
Any sorrowful cry or sound. "The tremulous sob of the complaining owl."


verb
Sob  v. t.  To soak. (Obs.)


Sob  v. i.  (past & past part. sobbed; pres. part. sobbing)  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." "She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair. She rent her garments, and she tore her hair."





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"Sob" Quotes from Famous Books



... quivering lips, but in another moment, with a sudden sob, she dropped to the rock, and buried her face in her crossed arms. Her slender body shook under a harrowing convulsion of unhappiness. Lescott felt as though he had struck her; as though he had ruthlessly blighted the irresponsible joyousness which had a few minutes before ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
... a smothered sob sounded from Tuttle's chair, and he exclaimed fiercely, "They'd better not say that ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly
... owed to these good friends of hers. "You must think me a brute, Jane! I haven't said a word to you about all your kindness. But—oh, you'll think me ridiculous, when you know"—and she began to laugh and to sob in one breath. Stella Ballantyne had remained so sunk in apathy through all that long trial that her friends were relieved at her outburst of tears. Jane Repton led her upstairs and put her to bed just as if she had been ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason
... to her room, Miss Selah; she's busy and can't come down," said the negro maid, rolling her eyes and stifling either a snigger or a sob by slapping ...
— The Co-Citizens • Corra Harris
... enough, I saw a little girl, less than my Miss Rosamond—dressed all unfit to be out-of-doors such a bitter night—crying, and beating against the window-panes, as if she wanted to be let in. She seemed to sob and wail, till Miss Rosamond could bear it no longer, and was flying to the door to open it, when, all of a sudden, and close upon us, the great organ pealed out so loud and thundering, it fairly made me tremble; and all the more, when I remembered me that, even in the ...
— Curious, if True - Strange Tales • Elizabeth Gaskell


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