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Commiserate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To feel or express sorrow or pity for; sympathize with.

verb-intransitive. To feel or express sympathy: commiserated over their failure.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. commiserating, pitying, lamentful

v. To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).

v. To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with.

v. To sympathize; condole.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To feel sorrow, regret, or compassion for, through sympathy; compassionate; pity: applied to persons or things: as, to commiserate a person or his condition.

To regret; lament; deplore; be sorry for.

To express pity for; condole with: as, he commiserated him on his misfortune.

Synonyms To sympathize with, feel for, condole with.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. to feel or express sympathy or compassion

Word Usage

"Indeed, in the midst of the ongoing crisis in his state, Walker actually called Governor Kaisch of Ohio, who's contemplating similar proposals, to "commiserate" about what he's going through."

Verb Form

commiserated commiserates commiserating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

pity condole with feel for compassionate sympathize with

Hyponym

condole

Form

commiseratingly l en

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pity lament compassionate condole

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

eviscerate