condole
Meanings
Verb
- express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death
- "You must condole the widow"
- Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.
- To express deep sorrow; to grieve, to lament.
- To express regret or sorrow over (an undesirable event or other misfortune); to bemoan, to grieve, to lament.
- To express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with (someone); to lament in sympathy with (someone).
- To express or feel sorrow for (oneself); to bewail, to mourn.
Origin / Etymology
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”)).
Synonyms
aggrieve, begrieve, bemoan, besorrow, bewail, beweep, bleed, commiserate, compassion, compassionate, condole, deplore, engrieve, erme, feel someone's pain, feel sorry for, gloom, grieve, grieven, keen, lament, mean, mercify, moan, mourn, pine, pity, regret, rue, sigh, sorrow, take pity, wail, wayment, yearn
Scrabble Score: 10
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