sob
sob /s'ɒb/ (sobs sobbing sobbed)
1 [VERB] V, V
When someone sobs, they cry in a noisy way, breathing in short breaths.
She began to sob again, burying her face in the pillow...
Her sister broke down, sobbing into her handkerchief.
● sobbing [N-UNCOUNT]
The room was silent except for her sobbing.
2 [VERB] V with quote
If you sob something, you say it while you are crying.
`Everything's my fault,' she sobbed.
3 [N-COUNT]
A sob is one of the noises that you make when you are crying.sob sto|ry (sob stories)
[N-COUNT]
You describe what someone tells you about their own or someone else's difficulties as a sob story when you think that they have told you about it in order to get your sympathy.
Any sob story moved Jarvis to generosity.
1 [VERB] V, V
When someone sobs, they cry in a noisy way, breathing in short breaths.
She began to sob again, burying her face in the pillow...
Her sister broke down, sobbing into her handkerchief.
● sobbing [N-UNCOUNT]
The room was silent except for her sobbing.
2 [VERB] V with quote
If you sob something, you say it while you are crying.
`Everything's my fault,' she sobbed.
3 [N-COUNT]
A sob is one of the noises that you make when you are crying.sob sto|ry (sob stories)
[N-COUNT]
You describe what someone tells you about their own or someone else's difficulties as a sob story when you think that they have told you about it in order to get your sympathy.
Any sob story moved Jarvis to generosity.