SOB Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

ˈsäb

as in to cry

to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress the child sobbed when she found the dead frog

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noun

as in tears

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Verb

The teen slumped in a chair, sobbing, in a Los Angeles Police Department interrogation room. —

Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024 Any millennial pop-culture enthusiast worth their salt sobbed over the ending of Stepmom (1998), when Susan Sarandon’s dying mother insists on taking a family photo that includes the young stepmother (Julia Roberts) she’s given grief to throughout the movie. —

Eliza Berman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024

Noun

My wife screams, cries and sobs during these conversations. —

Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024 Everyone else at the rehearsal dinner was as shocked as the bride-to-be, as shown by the reactions of her sister by her side at the dinner table, and later in the video, by her grandparents' heartfelt sobs. —

Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sob