whimper
/ˈwɪmpə/ verb C2- To cry or sob softly and intermittently. · The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.
- To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.
- To say something in a whimpering manner. · “Master, please don’t punish me!” he whimpered.
He/she/it whimpers · Past whimpered · Past participle whimpered · -ing form whimpering
Verb forms
- Base form
- whimper
- He/she/it
- whimpers
- Past
- whimpered
- Past participle
- whimpered
- -ing form
- whimpering
From the library
“You see,” said the Cowardly Lion, with a whimper, “I haven’t the courage to keep tramping forever, without getting anywhere at all.”
Toto whimpered a little, but none of the others was frightened, and they kept along the well-trodden path until they came to an opening in the wood, in which were gathered hundreds of beasts of every variety.
Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!” He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.
“It is nothing, it is nothing, if thou art safe, oh, my pride of all little frogs!” whimpered Baloo.
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