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UK
/kəmˈɪsəɹˌeɪt/
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[ US /kəˈmɪsɝˌeɪt/ ]
[ US /kəˈmɪsɝˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
- to feel or express sympathy or compassion
How To Use commiserate In A Sentence
- I asked Mama and she said `Oh darling any time she's probably all broken hearted about Lori too have her come over and you can commiserate. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
- Schieffer concluded by wondering if, like Thomas Jefferson, Obama is finding the presidency to be a "splendid misery" and quoting Jefferson, who once said "the presidency had brought him nothing but increasing drudgery and a daily loss of friends," commiserated: "Have you lost any friends yet? MRC Latest Headlines
- Her friends commiserated, of course, but could not comfort her.
- Biden, who has had two craniotomies to remove aneurysms, said he commiserated with Giffords about the challenges of recovery. Rep. Giffords casts debt-limit vote on House floor
- Following a breakup, a woman is likely to commiserate with her friends for a while and then get on with her life.
- We wish the committee well in future efforts to develop a Heritage Centre and commiserate with you on not receiving a grant from the Heritage Council on this.
- I commiserate with my friend after he got fired due to his frequent slips in the business.
- He has a brace too, and obviously sees me as a fellow sufferer of orthodontic torments with whom he can generally commiserate and complain to about not having had toffee in eighteen months.
- The operator on the end of the phone will speak flawless English, be chatty and polite and might even commiserate with you over the rotten weather where you live.
- I do hope you'll be better to-morrow," she said, and she commiserated with Anne on all she had missed -- the garden, the stars, the scent of flowers, the meteorites through whose summer shower the earth was now passing, the rising moon and its gibbosity. Crome Yellow