Meaning

3 senses

  1. To cry or sob softly and intermittently.

    The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.

    wimmern, winseln, quengeln

    хны́катьxnýkatʹ, скули́тьskulítʹ

    пхикатиpxykaty, скімлитиskimlyty

    cry weakly or softly

  2. To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.

  3. To say something in a whimpering manner.

    “Master, please don’t punish me!” he whimpered.

Examples

23 sentences

  1. The dog whimpered and backed away.

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  2. Cookie whimpered in pain.

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  3. Tom started whimpering.

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  4. Tom's dog whimpered.

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  5. How long are you going to keep whimpering about that? You can't change the past.

    deWie lange willst du noch darüber jammern? Du kannst die Vergangenheit nicht ändern. — Zaghawa

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to cry or sob softly and intermittently:
Русский
By meaning 1
to cry or sob softly and intermittently:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to cry or sob softly and intermittently:

Origin

From dialectal whimp (“to whine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare German wimmern (“t

From dialectal whimp (“to whine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare German wimmern (“to whimper, whine”).

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Forms

whimpers, whimpering, whimpered, whimpered
Base formwhimper · to whimper
3rd person singularwhimpers
Present participlewhimpering
Past simplewhimpered
Past participlewhimpered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywhimper
he, she, itwhimpers

Past simpleLesson

all personswhimpered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave whimpered
he, she, ithas whimpered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill whimper

Synonyms

3 synonyms
mewl
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedwhimperative

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
whilstC1whimwhimsicalwhine

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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