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
With scheming lawyer co-conspirator Sarah Atwood (Dawn Olivieri) murdered, dark Dutton son Jamie (Wes Bentley) is alone, cornered, and blubbering.
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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
And then raised the teacup to my lips to keep from blubbering.
—Alice McDermott, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
Stepping into the impossible shoes of Crispin Glover, Cole’s rubber-limbed George McFly has all the grace of a newborn foal, with a piercing chuckle that borders on blubbering.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
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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
And then raised the teacup to my lips to keep from blubbering.
—Alice McDermott, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
Stepping into the impossible shoes of Crispin Glover, Cole’s rubber-limbed George McFly has all the grace of a newborn foal, with a piercing chuckle that borders on blubbering.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blubber
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Traditionally, the upside down American flag signals distress, and that was the mood expressed as speakers shouted, cried and chanted with the crowd of around 100 people.—
Harley Walls,
Arkansas Online,
17 May 2025
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Giles and Benham cajoled a devastated squad — several players were crying — and told them they would get promoted the next season.—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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Creators posted videos of themselves sobbing onto the camera.—
Fortesa Latifi,
Rolling Stone,
21 May 2025
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Through the decades, this was the county that gave us the judge who sobbed while issuing a ruling in the Anna Nicole Smith case, the judge who was found half-naked at a judicial conference, and the judges, plural, who had faced DUI charges.—
Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
14 May 2025
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The car went quiet, and her grandmother began to weep.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
18 May 2025
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Life outside the courtroom, however, is a bit more complicated, with Nash-Betts weeping in a hospital gown and Kardashian stabbing herself with a needle in a bathroom stall.—
Emlyn Travis Published,
EW.com,
13 May 2025
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“Blubber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blubber. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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