Definition of: sob

(sob) noun
A convulsive, audible inhalation of air under the impulse of painful or hysterical emotion, and usually accompanied with tears; the act or the sound of sobbing; also, any similar sound, as of the wind. Also sob′·bing.
—v. sobbed, sob·bing v.i.
1. To weep with audible, convulsive catches of the breath.
2. To make a sound like a sob, as the wind.
—v.t.
3. To utter with sobs.
4. To bring to a specified condition by sobbing: to sob oneself to sleep. [Imit.]