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COMMISERATE

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 I. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they commiserate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it commiserates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: commiserated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: commiserated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: commiserating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

To feel or express sympathy or compassionplay

Synonyms:

commiserate; sympathise; sympathize

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

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)

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