Lament vs Sob - What's the difference?
lament | sob |
To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
* Bible, John xvi. 20
To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
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* Dryden
In lang=en terms the difference between lament and sob
is that lament is to feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail while sob is to say (something) while sobbing.As nouns the difference between lament and sob
is that lament is an expression of grief, suffering, or sadness while sob is a cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.As verbs the difference between lament and sob
is that lament is to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn while sob is to weep with convulsive gasps or sob can be to soak.lament
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* (l) (rare)Verb
(en verb)- Ye shall weep and lament , but the world shall rejoice.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
- One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.