Definition of Sob

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Definition of Sob

Sob

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.

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Sob Quotations

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. Auden

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.
Colleen Haskell

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.
Clive Cussler

Sob Translations

sob in Dutch is snikken
sob in German is schluchzen
sob in Italian is singhiozzare
sob in Latin is fleo
sob in Spanish is sollozar
sob in Swedish is snyfta, snyftning

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