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Commiserate


COMMISERATE, verb transitive

1. To pity; to compassionate; to feel sorrow, pain or regret for another in distress; applied to persons.

We should commiserate those who groan beneath the weight of age, disease or want.

2. To regret; to pity; to be sorry for; as, to commiserate our mutual ignorance.