Cry
Cry verb - To shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress.
Usage example: some kids started to cry even before the doctor had given them their shot
Sob is a synonym for cry in weep topic. In some cases you can use "Sob" instead the word "Cry" as a verb or a noun, when it comes to topics like happy, bawl, weeping and making sad sounds, weep and make sad sounds. popular alternative
Sob
Sob verb - To shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress.
Usage example: the child sobbed when she found the dead frog
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- You cry and weep and sob and cry and pout and whimper and cry all the time, every scene, non-stop!
Source: Redundancy / Fan Fiction -
In Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny, Dampierre's finisher just has him telling the opponent a sob story and ends with them giving him a coin while they go off to cry.
Source: Talking the Monster to Death -
It really doesn't take very much to make him cry, either- in one episode, a particularly mean customer yelled at him and threw a pizza box in the face, causing him to flop over on the ground, sob deeply for a while, and not stop until Squidward cheered him up.
Source: Fragile Flower
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