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Plural of whimper

regular plural

The plural of whimper is whimpers.

Forms of whimper

Singularwhimper /ˈwɪmpə/
Pluralwhimpers
Countablecountable

Whimpers in a sentence

  • “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club...
  • Aural communication includes spoken words and paralexical sounds (groans, screams, whimpers); sound effects (wind, a car starting up and driving away); and music.From the entry paralexical
  • Aiden Gillen whimpers on his knees, stretching for the first time in years.2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV…. From the entry callback
  • Please muffle the whimpers, the drippings of sweat.2004, Welsh Arts Council, Poetry Wales. From the entry dumben

Meaning of whimper

  1. noun A low intermittent sob.
  2. verb To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
  3. verb To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.

Full definition of whimper

Questions about the plural of whimper

What is the plural of whimper?
The plural of whimper is whimpers.
Is whimper countable?
Whimper is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whimper (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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