as in crying
to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress
the little girl was blubbing so uncontrollably that we couldn't understand what she was saying
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Recent Examples of blubbing
And then Jack was blubbing at the end of the aisle!
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Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026
Topping them both would be star player Paul Gascoigne blubbing on the pitch after receiving a yellow card during a semi-final against West Germany that ruled him out of a potential final.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026
Topping them both would be star player Paul Gascoigne blubbing on the pitch after receiving a yellow card during a semi-final against West Germany that ruled him out of a potential final.
—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blubbing
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Olivia Bithorn, 36, was crying in court Monday as the Nassau County District Attorney's Office described how her long history of alcohol abuse allegedly led to her 18-month-old son's death.
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One Jewish woman recounted taking her eight-year-old daughter to a restaurant at Bondi only for her daughter to start crying.
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Carter, who returned to her dad's house from seeing a friend shortly after he was killed, can be seen in body cam footage sobbing as she is told by police that somebody in the house was dead.
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His aunt sat at the dining table, sobbing.
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Petrescu looked over at Vidineac, who was weeping as the casket was lowered into the ground.
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Rice was surrounded by her legal team and her family at the time of the reading and immediately started weeping with her face in her hands.
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“Blubbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blubbing. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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