(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.
Sympathize
Definition:
(v. i.) To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
(v. i.) To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.
(v. i.) To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.
(v. t.) To experience together.
(v. t.) To ansew to; to correspond to.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the cultures of mycoplasmas obtained from the eyes of human patients suffering from sympathetic ophthalmia, it was possible to produce the same symptoms in chickens as were described by the author in 1950 in sympathizing and sympathized human eyes, namely: torpid uveitis and papillitis, which dragged on for months, and affected not only the inoculated right eye, but also, after 3 weeks and more, the untouched left eye.
(2) The people who were persecuting him and his companions and his sympathizers.
(3) The children with hyperthermal convulsions showed an increase in the sympathic tone and hyperfunctional manifestations.
(4) One struggles to sympathize: the wealthy, like corporations, rarely pay the full burden of tax anyway.
(5) To detect sympathic lesions the blood pressure changes were observed as response to change in posture (Schellong-Test).
(6) Psychological motivations, reasons why human nature is what it is, principles by which we may 'explain', understand, sympathize, or empathize with other human beings--and ourselves--what a variety of possible principles has been offered by philosophers and psychologists!
(7) These data permit to consider that such changes take place in the faces of patients with ganglionitis of the upper cervical sympathic node.
(8) Other commentators, whether or not they sympathized with Fox’s world view, felt that the level of violence qualified as terrorism, whatever the motivation for it.
(9) Cliven Bundy, the last remaining cattleman in southern Nevada, mobilized hundreds of sympathizers on Saturday to his "range war" in Bunkerville, Nevada, after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rounded-up nearly 400 of his cows which were grazing on protected land.
(10) Yemen’s internal turmoil had long proven amenable to al-Qaida sympathizers (the USS Cole was bombed in a Yemeni port in 2000), and Anwar al-Awlaki’s efforts there after 2007 boosted AQAP’s profile.
(11) Morales remained at large, a symbol of an era when violent leftist groups sowed fear and found sympathizers in the US and Latin America, and when bombs and hijackings were not uncommon dangers.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pro-Russian sympathizers in Crimea.
(13) To determine whether Haemophilus influenzae could be a factor in human atopy its effects were studied on the (para-)Sympathic Cyclic nucleotide-histamine axis in rats.
(14) These pathologic events are in accord with previously reported increases in myocardial sympathic nerve activity.
(15) There was a sentiment that we’re not just fighting for workers, we’re fighting back against someone who actively wants to destroy our community.” In one of the union’s Spanish-language radio ads , a man representing Trump Hotel employees says: “Our work helps make America a great country … How unfortunate that we have to say what the whole world already knows: no one works harder, no one loves their families more, no one sacrifices more than us.” In a slickly produced video of the first rally , more than 1,000 people, including Trump Hotel employees and their union sympathizers, marched to the hotel property carrying signs and megaphones.
(16) Urinary noradrenaline excretion per animal (24-h) showed a high sympathic nervous tone in both sham and UN rats.
(17) The paper is concerned with a clinical study of 9 patients where ganglionitis of the upper cervical sympathic node proceeded with an atrophy of the soft tissues in the form of facial hemiatrophy.
(18) On the basis of studies carried out by chronic experiments in dogs the authors noted, by clinical, chemical, radiological and histological methods, that the chemical sclerosis of the gastric mucosa performed with a sterile, fresh hypertonic solution of glucose at 60%, injected in the sub-mucosa, represents an intervention which is:--physiological, since the sclero-distrophy is achieved of the acid-secreting glands and "targeted" intra-gastric vago-sympathic denervation, while the storage function of the stomach is maintained;--feasible, since it can be easily performed from the technical view point, without hemorrhagic, perforative intra-operatory risks or hepato-renal toxicity;--fiable, since it was constantly accompanied by good clinical and functional results.
(19) The cause may be a postoperative imbalance between the sympathic and parasympathic innervation of the distal colon.
(20) Studies have suggested that early enucleation of a blind exciting eye can improve the prognosis for the sympathizing eye.