as in to cry
to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress
the child sobbed when she found the dead frog
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Recent Examples of sob
Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
The Bobcats drew up a play to start the extra session, and scored in just 10 seconds, leaving Minnesota fans stunned and many players sobbing before their flight home with a big silver trophy.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2025
Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
Seconds after Cawthon handed down his sentence in the Ada County courtroom Friday afternoon, Harmon’s mother began to break down in sobs.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2025
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Verb
What’s going on with Laurie, who ends the episode alone in her room, sobbing over a bottle of wine?
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
The Bobcats drew up a play to start the extra session, and scored in just 10 seconds, leaving Minnesota fans stunned and many players sobbing before their flight home with a big silver trophy.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
Now, in a small hospital where soft sobs echoed off the sterile linoleum floors, Aaron Easton, the boy Sara married who grew up to be Marysville’s police chief, explained what happened: Sara had shot herself in the head.
—Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025
Seconds after Cawthon handed down his sentence in the Ada County courtroom Friday afternoon, Harmon’s mother began to break down in sobs.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Sob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sob. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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