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sobbed


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sob  \Sob\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Sobbed};  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?ft["o]n,  s?ft?n,  to  sigh,  MHG. 
  siuften  siufzen  G.  seufzen  MHG.  s?ft  a  sigh,  properly,  a 
  drawing  in  of  breath,  from  s?fen  to  drink,  OHG.  s?fan.  Cf 
  {Sup}.] 
  To  sigh  with  a  sudden  heaving  of  the  breast,  or  with  a  kind 
  of  convulsive  motion;  to  sigh  with  tears,  and  with  a 
  convulsive  drawing  in  of  the  breath. 
 
  Sobbing  is  the  same  thing  [as  sighing],  stronger. 
  --Bacon. 
 
  She  sighed,  she  sobbed,  and  furious  with  despair.  She 
  rent  her  garments,  and  she  tore  her  hair.  --Dryden. 




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