- cryShe skinned her knee and began to cry.
- weepMy lady, why do you weep?
- cry your eyes outOur children cried their eyes out when our dog ran way.
- sob your heart outShe waved goodbye to her parents, then went to the gate and sobbed her heart out.
- cry bucketsEvery time I watch that film, I just cry buckets at the ending.
- bawlI bawled when I found out I didn't win the prize.
Meaning of sob in English
abbreviation for
son of a bitch mainly US offensive
sob | American Dictionary
Examples of sob
sob
Another singer might have invested the number with more overt emotion, perhaps with the occasional sob, as suggested by the text.
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The tapes resisted not only transposition, but even transcription, since how could one transcribe the timbre of a voice or the emotional impact of a sob?
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But writing and the critical text are seen as clearly subordinate to embodied practices such as breathing, sighing, sobbing, and vocalizing words whose expressive power they can never match.
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Then she breaks into wretched sobs.
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I do not want to tell a great sob story.
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We can all tell sob stories, but adding them all together creates a false impression.
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There were no sob stories, they were just words of despair and helplessness, and those words have been with me ever since.
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I wonder whether there is not a lot of "sob stuff" about this which ought not to lead us into unwise and ill-thought-out legislation.
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Some people may say that is sob stuff and sentimental talk.
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We may just fall into the trap of competitive sob stuff.
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The soldier does not want to have sob-stuff talked about him either.
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We want to introduce what some people call "sob stuff" into this matter.
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When we came here 16 years ago the language used to us was that it was sob stuff, and now they use a new term.
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There has not been a sentence from these benches of sob stuff.
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Here, we have hard facts to deal with that are much more impressive than merely sob-stuff.
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हुंदके देत रडणे…
泣きじゃくる, むせび泣く, むせび泣（な）く…
hıçkıra hıçkıra ağlamak, içini çekerek ağlamak, hıçkırarak ağlamak…
sangloter, sanglot [masculine], sanglot…
sanglotar…
snikken, snik…
சத்தமாக அழ, ஆழ்ந்த சுவாசத்தை எடுத்துக் கொள்ளுங்கள்…
सुबकना…
રડવું…
hulke, fremhulke, hulk…
snyfta, snyftning, snyftande…
esakan, teresak-esak, sedu-sedan…
schluchzen, das Schluchzen…
hulke, hulk [neuter], hulke fram…
سسکی لینا, سسکی بھرنا…
ридати, схлипувати, ридання…
рыдать…
బాగా లోతుగా ఊపిరి పీల్చుకుంటూ, బాగా చప్పుడు చేస్తూ ఏడ్వడం…
يَنْتَحِب…
ফুঁপিয়ে কাঁদা…
vzlykat, vzlyk…
tersedu-sedu, terisak-isak, isak tangis…
สะอื้นสะอื้น, ส่งเสียงร่ำไห้, เสียงสะอื้น…
khóc nức nở, nức nở kể chuyện gì, sự…
szlochać, mówić szlochając, szloch…
흐느껴 울다…
singhiozzare, singhiozzo…
