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SOBBING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Convulsive gasp made while weeping
Synonyms:
sob; sobbing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sobbing" is a kind of...):
crying; tears; weeping (the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds))
Derivation:
sob (weep convulsively)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb sob
Context examples:
She buried her face in her mother's lap, sobbing.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient have periods of tearfulness or sobbing that seem to indicate sadness?
(NPI - Periods of Tearfulness or Sobbing, NCI Thesaurus)
In the silence that followed, the low, half-sobbing whine was heard at the door and then the long, questing sniff.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Then he rolled over on his side with a heavy, sobbing sigh, saying: A sixpence is a tanner, and a shilling a bob; but what a pony is I don’t know.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The rooms were too large for her to move in with ease: whatever she touched she expected to injure, and she crept about in constant terror of something or other; often retreating towards her own chamber to cry; and the little girl who was spoken of in the drawing-room when she left it at night as seeming so desirably sensible of her peculiar good fortune, ended every day's sorrows by sobbing herself to sleep.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Her foot is on the very lintel of the church, and yet he bars the way—and she, she thinks no more of the wise words and holy rede of the lady abbess, but she hath given a sobbing cry and hath fallen forward with his arms around her drooping body and her wet cheek upon his breast.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even in her sleep she is sobbing for Em'ly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He put out his arms and folded her to his breast; and for a while she lay there sobbing.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
For several minutes there was nothing but the sound of sobbing in the room, mingled with broken words of comfort, tender assurances of help, and hopeful whispers that died away in tears.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He had himself climbed up behind, and I, after a hearty handshake from my father, and a last sobbing embrace from my mother, took my place beside my uncle in the front.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
