commiserate
verb (used without object)
to sympathize (usually followed bywith ).
have commiserated
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present perfectof commiserate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Cruz and Kellyman have commiserated over the constant disappointment they’ve felt when the queer story lines teased in other films and TV shows fail to materialize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
If your neighbor were a normal person, you’d immediately have told him what happened, and you all would have commiserated over this terrible accident.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2021
I was learning about tragic archetypes like Balzac’s Père Goriot, who might have commiserated with Shakespeare’s King Lear.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2021
Back home in the United States, I would have nudged the nearest fellow passenger, shook my head, and we would have commiserated in voices meant to be overheard about the delay.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2013
The escape was so very close, that when he reached me I congratulated him heartily, though if I had known what was going to happen I might much more properly have commiserated him.
From In Direst Peril by David Christie Murray
