condole
verb (used without object)
to express sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief (usually followed bywith ).
have condoled
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present perfectof condole.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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I should have condoled with you, and consoled you, and you would have forgotten her as you did the other.
From The Crusade of the Excelsior by Bret Harte
We designed to have come to this Place to have condoled with you in your Loss, but the War took up all our Time, and employed all Hands.
From The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Part I, Part II by Cadwallader Colden
But as these were feelings which her pride would not suffer her to disclose even to her friend, who would have condoled with her, their effects were doubly poignant.
From A Simple Story by G. L. Strachey
They have condoled with me about Rose’s marriage until I could scarcely keep the tears in my heart, and congratulated me on it until my face burned like a flame.
From Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
He knew she would have condoled with him had he lost.
From Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker by Marguerite Bryant
