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单词 sob
释义 sob
I. \ˈsäb\ verb
(sobbed ; sobbed ; sobbing ; sobs)
Etymology: Middle English sobben
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to catch the breath audibly in a spasmodic contraction of the throat resulting from an intense emotional excitement
 b. : to cry or weep with such convulsive catching of breath
  < began to sob a little, like a hurt child — F. Tennyson Jesse >
2. : to make a sound like that of a sob or sobbing
 < the loud, rapid, painful, regular intake of sobbing breath — Arnold Bennett >
 < the doves sob quietly in their cote — Edmund Blunden >
 < gives … the theme to the basses while the horns play a sobbing figure — Martin Cooper >
transitive verb
1. : to bring (as oneself) to a specified state or condition by sobbing
 < sobbed himself to sleep >
2. : to utter or pour forth with sobs
 < had cried enough already, sobbing her loneliness into her pillow — Stuart Cloete >
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English sobbe, from sobben to sob
1.
 a. : an act of sobbing
  < sobs shook their bodies — George Meredith >
  < stood for a moment … a joyous sob catching his throat — Wallace Markfield >
 b. archaic : an utterance or sound (as of effort or pain) similar to a sob
2. obsolete
 a. : the act of a horse in getting its wind
 b. : an interval for a horse to rest
 c. : rest, relief
3. : a sound like that of a sob
 < sobs of the wind in the trees >
III. \|eˌsōˈbē\ abbreviation or noun
(-s)
Usage: often capitalized S&O&B
: son of a bitch : bastard 7a
 < what the administration needs most … is a ruthless sob to run its politics — Time >
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