(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If someone ~s, they make quiet unhappy or frightened sounds, as if they are about to start crying.
She lay at the bottom of the stairs, ~ing in pain...
He made another pathetic ~ing sound.
VERB: V, V-ing
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Whimper is also a noun.
David’s crying subsided to a ~.
N-COUNT
2.
If someone ~s something, they say it in an unhappy or frightened way.
‘Let me go,’ she ~ed. ‘You’re hurting me.’...
She ~ed something inaudible.
VERB: V with quote, V n