What's the difference between commiserate and comrade?

Commiserate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I commiserate about the overnight flight that brought them here, Linney gives a wry grimace.
  • (2) Commiserations to the Dutch, but they didn't really turn up tonight, and were very poor.
  • (3) Why not come and celebrate or commiserate with a dip in the pool?
  • (4) With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of “Southwark Street” incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.
  • (5) "The president commiserates with all the families who lost loved ones in the heinous attacks and extends his heartfelt sympathies to all those who suffered injuries or lost their properties during the wanton assaults on Bauchi and Kaduna States," said a statement.
  • (6) Putin thanked leaders of other countries for their commiseration, the Kremlin press service announced.
  • (7) Blair texted him with "commiserations" as did Brown, Coulson revealed.
  • (8) The deputy prime minister took the opportunity to claim that the first person to call Coulson to commiserate on his resignation was Labour former prime minister Gordon Brown.
  • (9) But while the arrival of the baby in question will be a cause for celebration for the parents, it is a matter for commiseration for the rest of us.
  • (10) When David Cameron phoned Ed Miliband on Monday morning with a briefing on Libya they commiserated with each other about being in the doghouse with their families for having broken off their holidays.
  • (11) Liquidation looks likely as MPs go home to commiserate with their local fallen councillors, and the Lib Dems overtake Labour.
  • (12) Even as Netanyahu took credit for the release of abducted soldier Gilad Shalit , welcoming him home in person at Tel Nof airbase, he was offering heartfelt commiserations to the relatives of Israelis killed by the Palestinian prisoners he freed in exchange.
  • (13) Instead, Boehner has offered McConnell not compromise but commiserations.
  • (14) Within seconds Bouchard was offering commiserations at the net.
  • (15) Richard Dawkins Oxford • I would like to congratulate Sarah Olney on becoming our new MP in Richmond Park, and give my commiserations to Zac Goldsmith.
  • (16) My trip back to commiserate with loved ones can wait a few weeks.
  • (17) ‘I’m sorry for my role as an adult’ The Seattle Resistance Salon was created partly to find others to commiserate with.
  • (18) Well done to everyone who got the results they wanted today, and commiserations to those that didn't.
  • (19) Asked to offer commiserations, Pellegrini said: “It is a pity for them.
  • (20) Mahmoud Muhim, the father of one of the dead protesters, took the microphone during the march and said: "Not one person has offered me commiserations.

Comrade


Definition:

  • (n.) A mate, companion, or associate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
  • (2) 'The foreigners are here for their own reasons,' said his younger comrade.
  • (3) As a result of the blast, there were martyrs and wounded among our heroic armed comrades,” the military said.
  • (4) It's as well to be aware of the beckoning avenues of justification that are drawing in so many of our erstwhile comrades.
  • (5) The International Olympic Committee – Fifa's comrade in the global 1% – has demonstrated that it's entirely possible to throw a sport extravaganza and still pay taxes.
  • (6) Leaks suggested the case against the detainees rested on little more than evidence they used words such as compa , a shortening of the Spanish word compañero, which means comrade, but is also often used in leftwing circles to mean simply friend.
  • (7) As well as sparking a novel, Merrill's caress further initiated Forster into the comradely haven of his and Carpenter's rural domesticity: a Derbyshire homestead, safe from public scrutiny.
  • (8) Three of them completed marathon races despite symptoms, one athlete running more than 20 miles after the onset of exertional discomfort to complete the 56 mile Comrades Marathon.
  • (9) Comrades from the heroic anti-colonial days retired, drifted away or were pushed out – in the case of President Devan Nair in 1985, after a humiliating allegation of alcoholism that he contested.
  • (10) In 1981 he and nine comrades could no longer watch the younger prisoners being beaten and felt that they had no option but to hunger strike to the death, to establish in the eyes of the world that they were political prisoners fighting a just cause.
  • (11) In 2009, he took part in an endurance event in the Amazon to raise money for injured comrades.
  • (12) For this to be corrected, please, give the incoming government a chance’,” reported Ameh Comrade Godwin in Nigeria’s Daily Post .
  • (13) But perhaps we should also celebrate those who had been doing that when there were no comrades; those who are rejected by mainstream society yet still maintain love for their countries, enough to return to them when they did not have to; to protest and put their lives on the line; to not allow themselves to be defined by the parameters they cannot fit, and hope that when the revolutionary fervour has died, society will not continue to judge them too harshly.
  • (14) Most of their comrades ran for the surrounding hills or defected to the invading rebels, known as M23, instantly gaining higher pay, more food and crisper uniforms.
  • (15) Like the late Hughes, there are many former comrades of the Sinn Féin chief who have begged to differ and who have said that, to continue the Shakespearean theme, the IRA without Adams would be like Hamlet without its prince.
  • (16) The Morning Star said that the book was: "Full of humour – often at his own and comrades's expense".
  • (17) *applause* February 21, 2014 Reuters has more from the scene: After another open coffin was held aloft by the crowd, a protester wearing battle-fatigues leapt up to the microphone and triggered roars of approval as he declared: “By tomorrow we want him (Yanukovich) out!” Referring to the three opposition leaders, including boxer-turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko, who were standing behind him, the man said: “My comrade was shot and our leaders shake the hand of a murderer.
  • (18) He had already left the Communist party (in 1954), yet he had never publicly denounced his former comrades: that was not his style.
  • (19) Other purported former comrades made denunciations on Facebook pages such as " Bowe Bergdahl is not a hero ”, and an online petition to the White House demanding a court martial garnered more than 2,900 signatures.
  • (20) Boxun showed what it said was a screenshot of Shandong News with a banner headline reading "Venerable Comrade Jiang Zemin Will Never Be Forgotten" next to a photo of the former leader.