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To whimper is to make a low, soft feeble cry or sound usually because you are sad, in pain or otherwise unhappy.

(verb)

When you feel very sick and let out a very small cry of pain, this is an example of a time when you whimper.

The definition of a whimper is a soft, feeble cry, or an anticlimactic or mild ending.

(noun)

A low volume crying sound is an example of a whimper.
A book that ends in a mild and boring manner is an example of a book that ends with a whimper.

See whimper in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb

to make low, whining, broken sounds, as in crying or in fear

Origin: ? akin to whine

transitive verb

to utter or say with a whimper

noun

a whimpering sound or cry

Related Forms:

whimperingly adverb

See whimper in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb whim·pered, whim·per·ing, whim·pers

verb, intransitive

To cry or sob with soft intermittent sounds; whine. See Synonyms at cry.
To complain.

verb, transitive

To utter in a whimper.

noun

A low, broken, sobbing sound; a whine.

Origin:

Origin: Probably imitative

Related Forms:

whimˈper·er noun

whimˈper·ing·ly adverb

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