commiserate
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commiserate with (one)
To express mutual sympathy with one about a shared negative experience. Luckily, I can commiserate with my classmates about how mean our science teacher is. If you ever want to commiserate about bad break-ups, I've had my share, believe me. I'm going down to the bar to commiserate with the other laid-off workers.
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commiserate with someone
to share one's misery with another person who is also miserable. I stopped by Bruce's house to commiserate with him on being laid off.
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That is to say, why would most of us perceive it to be unsatisfying were we to find that while our lover identified with our needs and interests, we nonetheless failed to do so with his or hers, instead stopping short at some
commiserative level?
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