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CONDOLE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they condole ... he / she / it condoles
Past simple: condoled
Past participle: condoled
-ing form: condoling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death
Example:
You must condole the widow
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "condole" is one way to...):
commiserate; sympathise; sympathize (to feel or express sympathy or compassion)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
condolence (an expression of sympathy with another's grief)
