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COMMISERATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they commiserate ... he / she / it commiserates
Past simple: commiserated
-ing form: commiserating
Sense 1
Meaning:
To feel or express sympathy or compassion
Synonyms:
commiserate; sympathise; sympathize
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "commiserate" is one way to...):
compassionate; condole with; feel for; pity; sympathize with (share the suffering of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "commiserate"):
condole (express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue commiserate
Derivation:
commiseration (an expression of sympathy with another's grief)
commiseration (a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others)
commiserative (feeling or expressing sympathy)