Emotions
Synonyms for sob
The synonym for sob recorded in this bank is weep, in the sense "to cry noisily with convulsive gasps". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for sob
- weepverb, in the sense "to cry noisily with convulsive gasps"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for sob.
to cry noisily with convulsive gasps
The little boy started to sob uncontrollably after dropping his ice cream.
The true synonym
weep
Same sentence, swapped: The little boy started to weep uncontrollably after dropping his ice cream.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for sob in the sentence quoted.
- laugh
- shout
- whisper
Where sob turns up in the game
sob is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play sob
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sob reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from emotions at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sob carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.