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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Commiserated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Commiserating

[L.

commiseratus

, p. p. of

commiserari

to commiserate;

com-

miserari

to pity. See

To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.

Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight
Of age, disease, or want,

commiserate

Denham.

Syn. – To pity; compassionate; lament; condole.

, v.t.

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.

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