as in to cry
to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress the poor child was blubbering because he had fallen and skinned his knee

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Recent Examples of blubber On and on the tears flowed, from Pittsburgh to Minnesota, from Northern California to South Florida, with many blubbering that signing two-time Cy Young Award-winning Blake Snell to a $182-million contract officially makes the defending World Series champions bad for the game. Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024 With scheming lawyer co-conspirator Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri) murdered, dark Dutton son Jamie (Wes Bentley) is alone, cornered, and blubbering. Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024 Bowen Yang watched the final cut of Wicked with some of his Saturday Night Live costars — and the movie left them all a blubbering mess. Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024 One year ago, the chubby and blubbering soon-to-be leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was seen walking alongside the hearse that carried his dead father, Kim Jong Il. Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2012 See All Example Sentences for blubber
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  • Inside, hundreds of people huddled together, crying.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Several dozen students gathered under half-staff flags — some crying quietly, others clutching flowers.
    Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • At one point during the celebrations, Bronze sat on the pitch, put her hand over her mouth and sobbed.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • As a flame passed candle to candle, some sobbed as the gathering remembered those who died and marked their loss.
    Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Safdie embraced Johnson and his co-star Emily Blunt during the ovation, weeping alongside him.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Family matriarch Donna Adelson was scolded by a judge Thursday for weeping in the courtroom after being convicted of orchestrating a 2014 murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, a prominent Florida State University law professor.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Blubber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blubber. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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