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commiserated

commiserated is the simple past and past participle of commiserate.

Meaning of commiserate

Verb

commiserate (third-person singular simple present commiserates, present participle commiserating, simple past and past participle commiserated)

  1. (transitive) To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).
    • A few individuals who commiserated the unhappy condition of British negro slaves.
  2. (intransitive) To sympathize; condole.
  3. (ambitransitive) To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with.

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Words formed from commiserated

Questions about commiserated

What is commiserated the simple past and past participle of?
Commiserated is the simple past and past participle of commiserate.

Words near commiserated in the dictionary

  1. comminutors
  2. commis
  3. commiscible
  4. commiserable
  5. commiserate
  6. commiserated
  7. commiserates
  8. commiserating
  9. commiseratingly
  10. commiseration
  11. commiserations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commiserated (page history and authors); commiserate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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