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.
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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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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.