sob
sob
- n a dyspneic condition
- n insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- n convulsive gasp made while weeping
- v weep convulsively
He was sobbing inconsolably
- After poking Communist fun for 18 long years at the "sob stories" and "personality stuff" of Capitalist journalism, Moscow's two great official newsorgans, Pravda.
- But before she could finish, others were pushing her aside to sob out their own litanies of loss.
- They have made insulin into pills; not such pills as are wont to be taken by candlelight with a sob, a gulp of water and a lump of sugar.