different between sob vs outcry

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?b/
• (General American) enPR: säb, IPA^(key): /s?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin; compare with Dutch dialect sabben 'to suck'.

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Noun

sob (plural sobs)

1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
2. (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
   • 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:

     “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
     A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
     And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.”

Derived terms

• sobby
• sob story
• sob stuff

Translations

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.

   • She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

2. (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.

   "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Translations

Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. To soak.

Anagrams

• BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sop/

Noun

sob m

1. reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)

Declension

Further reading

• sob in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sob in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)

Synonyms

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)

Antonyms

• supren (“up, upwards”)
• (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sob/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?so.bi/, /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

1. under

Antonyms

• sobre

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sob m (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. reindeer

See also

• irvas/?????

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??m?/

Noun

sob

1. early morning

Adjective

sob

1. of early morning

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Volapük

Noun

sob (nominative plural sobs)

1. soap

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English outcry, outcri, outcrye, equivalent to out- +? cry.The verb is from Middle English outcrien.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK, US) enPR: out?kr?, IPA^(key): /?a?tk?a?/

Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: out-kr??, IPA^(key): /a?t?k?a?/

Noun

outcry (plural outcries)

1. A loud cry or uproar.

2. (figuratively) A strong protest.
3. (India, archaic) An auction.

   to send goods to an outcry

Translations

Verb

outcry (third-person singular simple present outcries, present participle outcrying, simple past and past participle outcried)

1. (intransitive) To cry out.
   • 1919, Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1

     I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.

2. (transitive) To cry louder than.
   • 2003, Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the lines (page 355)

     ...outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle...

   • 2007, Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic (page 104)

     The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.

Anagrams

• cry out