sob
/sɑb/ verb B2- To weep with convulsive gasps. · She was sobbing because she was feeling very miserable.
- To say (something) while sobbing. · "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.
He/she/it sobs · Past sobbed · Past participle sobbed · -ing form sobbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- sob
- He/she/it
- sobs
- Past
- sobbed
- Past participle
- sobbed
- -ing form
- sobbing
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Her grief, which she had hitherto tried to restrain, now burst out in a violent fit of hysterical sobbing.
“Oh, indeed—indeed, sir, he is innocent!” sobbed forth Mercédès.
Dorothy began to sob at this, for she felt lonely among all these strange people.
“I never killed anything, willingly,” she sobbed.
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