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sobbing

verbnounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsɒbɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈsɑbɪŋ//

Act of one who sobs; a crying or weeping.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of sobpresent participle and gerund of sob

noun

  1. 1

    Act of one who sobs; a crying or weeping.

adjective

  1. 1

    That or who sobs.

    a sobbing child

    Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]

Forms

plural
sobbings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).