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sobbing

/sob/US // sɒb //UK // (sɒb) //

唏嘘不已,泣不成声,呜咽,唏嘘

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sobbed, sob·bing.

    • : to weep with a convulsive catching of the breath.
    • : to make a sound resembling this.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sobbed, sob·bing.

    • : to utter with sobs.
    • : to put, send, etc., by sobbing or with sobs: to sob oneself to sleep.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of sobbing; a convulsive catching of the breath in weeping.
    • : any sound suggesting this.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The 26 were beaten by the bailiffs as they filed into a caged dock, sobbing, on Dec. 21.

  • His voice is now shriller, the sobbing more pathetic, and the words begin to garble as he swallows water.

  • Eric Jr. now helped his sobbing mother over to the front pew and his equally grief-stricken paternal grandmother, Gwendolyn Carr.

  • Sure, the initial poof would seem pretty spectacular—car crashes, mothers sobbing over their strollers, that sort of stuff.

  • My coworker—who by the way is a guy—was sobbing when we saw the film.

  • Donny, sobbing and calling his father's name, pushed on as well as he could by himself.

  • Now and again he thought that he heard some one sobbing, but the noise was very faint.

  • She lay there sobbing within a foot of his hungry arms, sobbing as though her heart must break.

  • She had sunk down beside the bed, her head was buried in the pillow; she was sobbing wildly.

  • Edna was sobbing, just as she had wept one midnight at Grand Isle when strange, new voices awoke in her.