"feel sorry for" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: feels sorry for [present, singular, third-person], feeling sorry for [participle, present], felt sorry for [participle, past], felt sorry for [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|feel<,,felt> sorry for}} feel sorry for (third-person singular simple present feels sorry for, present participle feeling sorry for, simple past and past participle felt sorry for)
  1. To pity; to show pity for. Categories (topical): Emotions Translations (show pity for): ᎦᏙᎵᎦ (gadoliga) (Cherokee), 憐憫 (Chinese Mandarin), 怜悯 (liánmǐn) (Chinese Mandarin), 可憐 (Chinese Mandarin), 可怜 (kělián) (Chinese Mandarin), 同情 (tóngqíng) (Chinese Mandarin), sääliä (Finnish), bemitleiden (German), leidtun (note: subject is the person felt sorry for; indirect object is the person feeling sorry) (German), misereor (Latin), sentir pena de (Portuguese), amercear (Portuguese), tycka synd om (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "show pity for",
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