sob

See also: SOB

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /sɒb/
  • (US) enPR: säb, IPA(key): /sɑb/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒb

Etymology 1

Noun

sob (plural sobs)

  1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

  1. (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.
    • Dryden
      She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
  2. (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.
    "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:weep
Translations


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Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

  1. To soak.
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Anagrams

Czech

sob

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔp/

Noun

sob m

  1. reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)

Declension

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sob/
  • Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

  1. (neologism, nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)
    • 1993, Jorge Camacho, La Majstro kaj Martinelli‎, Iltis Saarbrücken:
      Ni saltu sob antaŭ ol venos fruemaj promenantoj.
      Let's jump down before the early promenaders come.

Synonyms

Antonyms

  • supren (“up, upwards”)
  • (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsob/
  • Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

  1. under

Antonyms

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sob m (Cyrillic spelling соб)

  1. reindeer

See also

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔʔm̥/

Noun

sob

  1. early morning

Adjective

sob

  1. of early morning

References

Volapük

Noun

sob (plural sobs)

  1. soap

Declension

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