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Commiserate   /kəmˈɪsərˌeɪt/   Listen
Commiserate

verb
(past & past part. commiserated; pres. part. commiserating)
1.
To feel or express sympathy or compassion.  Synonyms: sympathise, sympathize.






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"Commiserate" Quotes from Famous Books



... their correspondence there are many allusions to him. "Mr. Gay," wrote Swift to Pope, "is a scandal to all lusty young fellows with healthy countenances; and, I think, he is not intemperate in a physical sense. I am told he has an asthma, which is a disease I commiserate more than deafness, because it will not leave a man quiet either ...
— Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) • Lewis Melville

... own strength, but on the nature of the cause I plead; for I am convinced, that when the train of measures which have led that miserable country into its present situation shall be fully disclosed, it will be but little difficult to rouze the people of England not merely to commiserate a distressed country, but excite them to exert their constitutional endeavours, as head of the British empire, to avert the destruction of ...
— The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed • Anonymous

... critics were unanimous in their violent condemnation of Delacroix's works: "the compositions of a sick man in delirium," "the fanaticism of ugliness," "barbarous execution," "an intoxicated broom"—such are some of the terms of abuse showered upon him. The gentlest among them commiserate the talent which here and there can be seen "struggling with the systematic bizarrerie and the disordered technique of the artist, just as gleams of reason and sometimes flashes of genius may be seen pitiably shining through ...
— Six Centuries of Painting • Randall Davies



Words linked to "Commiserate" :   commiserative, commiseration, compassionate, pity, sympathise, feel for, condole with, sympathize with, condole



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