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sobbing

verb
/ˈsɒbɪŋ/UK/ˈsɑbɪŋ/US

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of sob

  2. Act of one who sobs

    Act of one who sobs; a crying or weeping.

  3. That or who sobs.

    • a sobbing child
    • 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: [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sobbing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sobbing02crying03deplorable04deplored05deplore06weep

A definitional loop anchored at sobbing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at sobbing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA