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Gasp while weeping
Answer for the clue "Gasp while weeping ", 3 letters:
sob
Alternative clues for the word sob
Word definitions for sob in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sob story ▪ a sob story about how she lost all her money COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB uncontrollably ▪ He woke up finally from a nightmare of dismembered bodies and prison guards to find himself bathed in sweat ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from sob (v.). Sob story is from 1913. Sob sister "female journalist who writes sentimental stories or advice columns" is from 1912.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sob \Sob\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sobbed (s[o^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sobbing .] [OE. sobben; akin to AS. se['o]fian, si['o]fian, to complain, bewail, se['o]fung, si['o]fung, sobbing, lamentation; cf. OHG. s[=u]ft[=o]n, s[=u]ftj[=o]n, to ...
Usage examples of sob.
Chained again in his corner of the drafry t Vcell, Alec turned his face to the rough stone wall and sobbed until his chest ached.
When her last amigo had dropped to the ground, sobbing that he could not get up, she left him, taking eight pesos from his pocket.
Even Seri, usually level-headed and calm, had flung herself on Aris, sobbing wildly, in the first hours after.
Sheila broke off in a string of arrhythmic hiccups that gradually faded to sobs.
Pleading for mercy, calling on whatever god might hear them, they crawled through the darkness, sobbing, bedeviled on every side.
I was pushed into a line with the other spirits, who were again bemoaning their fate in a low sob.
She had ceased sobbing, but her trembling would not be stilled, and she shuddered afresh when he came closer to her, beseeching his forgiveness with a pathetic smile, yet shrinking the more.
And Boule de Suif still wept, and sometimes a sob she could not restrain was heard in the darkness between two verses of the song.
Her eloquent sighs and sobs soon told the caitiff he had nothing to fear.
A moment after the gentleman and his wife came back to their room, and I heard the loud voice of the one and the sobs of the other, but as he was speaking Walloon I did not understand what he said.
Holly lifted her right hand and stroked the bright stars at her throat with a look of total disbelief on her delicate features, then she choked and sobbed and turned to Centaine and -embraced her.
Dorian stared at him in horrified disbelief, and Yasmini choked back her sobs: her brothers and other kin must be among the dead.
I ditched my scuba set in the water for Angelo to recover, shrugging out of the harness, and when I scrambled over the side, Chubby had laid her on the floorboards and he was leaning over her, folding her in his arms to quieten her struggles and still her moans and sobs of agony.
On a half sob and a hiccough combo, she rose to her feet and let Charmaine in.
For he was sure it was Felicia and not her mother who was sobbing, though he knew Lady Coombs was suffering silently.