Definitions for sobs

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sobs sob

Spelling: [sob]

IPA: /sɒb/

Sobs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in sobs (boss).

Definitions for sobs

noun

1. the act of sobbing; a convulsive catching of the breath in weeping.
2. any sound suggesting this.

verb (used with object)

1. to utter with sobs.
2. to put, send, etc., by sobbing or with sobs:

verb (used without object)

1. to weep with a convulsive catching of the breath.
2. to make a sound resembling this.

Origin of sobs

1150-1200; Middle English sobben, apparently imitative

Examples for sobs

I remember Cat Deeley literally took your head into her arms and let you sob on her shoulder.

It answered with a little exclamation, with a sob following close upon it.

Then Zvereva began to sob uncontrollably, remembering the wounds, the torn limbs and missing parts of bodies.

And there are some things which are,' he stopped to sob, 'irreconcilable with that, and wound that—wound it deeply.

Finally, Cleese goose-steps out of the dining room as the hapless Germans cringe and sob.

Until 1972 it was called simply The Senate Office Building – sob for short.

Failing that, she began to sob angrily without any tears in her wide eyes.

Here she began to sob, as she fumbled at the door she could not see to open.

She waited for the inexplicable sentiment to fade away, but instead it intensified and she began to sob.

She stopped breathlessly, with a break in her voice that sounded just short of a sob.