commiserate

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Commiserating, pitying, lamentful.
2. verb To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).

   A few individuals who commiserated the unhappy condition of British negro slaves.

3. verb To sympathize; condole.
4. verb To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Similar words

sympathize empathize plaintful compunct lamented pityful piteous grievable pittyful memorative

Often followed by

with the about and over their his on me

Word family

commiserated commiserates commiserating commiseratingly commiseration commiserations commiserative