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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Sob

Sŏb, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. SOBBED; p. pr. & vb. n. SOBBING.] [A-S. seófian, siófian, to complain, bewail, seóbgende, i. e., seófgende, complaining, sobbing, seófung, siófung, sobbing, lamentation, M. H. Ger. säwfen, O. H. Ger. sûftôn, to groan; Goth. svogjan, A-S. swôgan.] To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with deep sorrow or with tears.

Sobbing is the same thing [as sighing], but stronger. Bacon.

She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair, She rent her garments, and she tore her hair. Dryden.

Sŏb, n.

noun

n. 1. A convulsive sigh or catching of the breath in sorrow; a convulsive act of respiration obstructed by sorrow.

Break, heart, or choke with sobs my hated breath. Dryden.

Sense 2. Any sorrowful cry or sound. “The tremulous sob of the complaining owl.” Wordsworth.

Sŏb, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [See SOP.] To soak. [Obs.] Mortimer.