condole
Verb
Verb Forms: condoled, condoling, condoles
- To express sympathy or sorrow to someone.
- express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death
- "You must condole the widow"
- Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.
- To express deep sorrow; to grieve, to lament.
- To express regret or sorrow over (an undesirable event or other misfortune); to bemoan, to grieve, to lament.
- To express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with (someone); to lament in sympathy with (someone).
- To express or feel sorrow for (oneself); to bewail, to mourn.
Examples
- After a crushing defeat, his friends would CONDOLE with him over his poor Words With Friends luck.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*ḱóm
Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin condolēre, the present active infinitive of condoleō (“to feel severe pain, suffer greatly; to suffer with or feel another’s pain, condole”), from Latin con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several things) + doleō (“to suffer physical pain, hurt; to be sorry, grieve for, deplore, lament”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”)).
Synonyms
aggrieve, begrieve, bemoan, besorrow, bewail, beweep, bleed, commiserate, compassion, compassionate, condole, deplore, engrieve, erme, feel someone's pain, feel sorry for, gloom, grieve, grieven, keen, lament, mean, mercify, moan, mourn, pine, pity, regret, rue, sigh, sorrow, take pity, wail, wayment, yearn
Scrabble Score: 10
condole: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcondole: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
condole: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary