单词 | commiserate |
释义 | commiserate (once / 2973 pages) v When you commiserate with your buddies, you're sharing your lousy feelings. People who commiserate have the same negative feelings about something. Take a look at how commiserate is built: it's from Latin "com-," which means "together with," and miserārī, "to pity." Put them together, and you get "to pity one another, commiserate." When you commiserate, you and your fellow commiserators talk about how badly you're all feeling. After the layoffs, we all went to the bar to commiserate. WORD FAMILYcommiserate: commiserated, commiserates, commiserating, commiseration, commiserative+/commiseration: commiserations/commiserative: commiseratively USAGE EXAMPLESShare them in the comments — your neighbors may be able to commiserate. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Mama had told Adamu not to open the gates to all the people who wanted to throng in for mgbalu, to commiserate with us. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) She and Trump may have been able to commiserate about their troubles with the Times. The New Yorker(Nov 23, 2016) v to feel or express sympathy or compassion Syn|Hypo|Hyper sympathise, sympathize condole express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death compassionate, condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with share the suffering of |
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