"condole" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /kənˈdoʊl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-condole.wav [Southern-England] Forms: condoles [present, singular, third-person], condoling [participle, present], condoled [participle, past], condoled [past]
Rhymes: -əʊl Etymology: Borrowed from Latin condoleo (“to suffer with another”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*delh₁-}}, {{bor|en|la|condoleo|t=to suffer with another}} Latin condoleo (“to suffer with another”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} condole (third-person singular simple present condoles, present participle condoling, simple past and past participle condoled)
  1. (intransitive) To express sympathetic sorrow; to lament in sympathy (with someone on something). Tags: intransitive Translations (to express sympathetic sorrow, to lament): fcd (feshd) (Berber Tashelhit), съчувствам (sǎčuvstvam) (Bulgarian), condolersi (Italian), współczuć (Polish), соболезновать (soboleznovatʹ) (Russian), сочу́вствовать (sočúvstvovatʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-condole-en-verb-dKevOZFJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 9 38 37 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 25 3 33 39 Disambiguation of 'to express sympathetic sorrow, to lament': 68 0 6 26
  2. (transitive) To condole with (someone). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-condole-en-verb-MDrtEdgA
  3. (transitive) To say in an expression of sympathy. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-condole-en-verb-H-WYlduZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 9 38 37 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 25 3 33 39
  4. (transitive, India, chiefly obsolete in other dialects) To lament, grieve, bemoan (something). Tags: India, dialectal, obsolete, transitive Translations (to grieve): condoleo (Latin), горевать (gorevatʹ) (Russian), сокрушаться (sokrušatʹsja) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-condole-en-verb-XU5-4he5 Categories (other): Indian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 9 38 37 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 25 3 33 39 Disambiguation of 'to grieve': 14 0 3 83
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: condolence, condoled chief

Inflected forms

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      "word": "соболезновать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sočúvstvovatʹ",
      "sense": "to express sympathetic sorrow, to lament",
      "word": "сочу́вствовать"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to grieve",
      "word": "condoleo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gorevatʹ",
      "sense": "to grieve",
      "word": "горевать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sokrušatʹsja",
      "sense": "to grieve",
      "word": "сокрушаться"
    }
  ],
  "word": "condole"
}

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