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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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“Blubber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blubber. Accessed 17 Jun. 2021.

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