Meaning | To feel or express sympathy or compassion / compassion. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
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Model | Sam and Sue commiserate |
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Synonyms | sympathize, sympathise |
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Narrower | condole | Express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death |
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Broader | feel for, pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with | Share the suffering of |
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Spanish | compadecerse, simpatizar |
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Catalan | compadir-se, simpatitzar |
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Adjectives | commiserative | feeling or expressing sympathy / sympathy |
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Nouns | commiseration | an expression of sympathy with another's grief |
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commiseration | a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others |