Sob

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Any sorrowful cry or sound.

II. Sob ·vt To Soak.

III. Sob ·noun The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.

IV. Sob ·vi 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.