commiserate
verb /kəˈmɪzəreɪt/
/kəˈmɪzəreɪt/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they commiserate | /kəˈmɪzəreɪt/ /kəˈmɪzəreɪt/ |
| he / she / it commiserates | /kəˈmɪzəreɪts/ /kəˈmɪzəreɪts/ |
| past simple commiserated | /kəˈmɪzəreɪtɪd/ /kəˈmɪzəreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle commiserated | /kəˈmɪzəreɪtɪd/ /kəˈmɪzəreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form commiserating | /kəˈmɪzəreɪtɪŋ/ /kəˈmɪzəreɪtɪŋ/ |
- commiserate (with somebody) (on/about/for/over something) | + speech to show somebody sympathy when they are upset or disappointed about something
- She commiserated with the losers on their defeat.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin commiserat- ‘commiserated’, from the verb commiserari, from com- ‘with’ + miserari ‘to lament’ (from miser ‘wretched’).