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verb
Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To express deep sorrow; to grieve, to lament.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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Synonyms: besorrow, mourn, rue, aggrieve, condole, darken, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieve, grieven, bleed, lament, moan, remorse, repent, regret, sigh, sorrow, wayment, yearn
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To express regret or sorrow over (an undesirable event or other misfortune); to bemoan, to grieve, to lament.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, often, transitive
Qualifier: archaic or obsolete except India
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Synonyms: bewail, mourn, afterthink, becry, begrieve, bemoan, bemourn, beweep, condole, deplore, elegize, grieve, grieven, keen, lament, mean, pine, repent, sigh, sorrow, wail, wayment
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with (someone); to lament in sympathy with (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: commiserate, feel sorry for, compassion, compassionate, condole, feel someone's pain, mercify, pity, rue, take pity
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To express or feel sorrow for (oneself); to bewail, to mourn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, reflexive, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: commiserate, sympathize, sympathise
History
PIE word *ḱóm Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin condolēre, the present active infinitive of condoleō (“to feel severe pain, suffer greatly; to suffer with or feel another’s pain, condole”), from Latin con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several things) + doleō (“to suffer physical pain, hurt; to be sorry, grieve for, deplore, lament”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh1- (“to divide, split”)).
Across languages
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