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