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COMMISERATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To feel or express sympathy or compassion

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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