sobbing

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒbɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑbɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒbɪŋ
• Hyphenation: sob‧bing

Verb

sobbing

1. present participle and gerund of sob

Noun

sobbing (countable and uncountable, plural sobbings)

1. Act of one who sobs; a crying or weeping.

   Synonyms: crying, sobs

Translations

action of the verb "to sob"

• Bulgarian: ридание (bg) n (ridanie), хлипане (hlipane)
• Finnish: nyyhkytys (fi)
• French: sanglotement (fr) m
• Galician: choro m, choremia f
• German: Schluchzen (de) m
• Hungarian: zokogás (hu)
• Latin: singultus m
• Norwegian: snufsing m
• Russian: всхли́пывание (ru) n (vsxlípyvanije)
• Spanish: sollozo (es) m

Adjective

sobbing (not comparable)

1. That or who sobs.

   Synonym: crying

   a sobbing child

   • 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 69:

     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: [...]

Translations

that or who sobs

• Dutch: wenend (nl), snotterend (nl)
• Finnish: nyyhkivä, nyyhkyttävä (fi)
• French: sanglotant (fr) m, sanglotante (fr) f
• Spanish: sollozante (es)

Anagrams

• Gibbons, gibbons, gobbins