CONDOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does condole mean? 

• CONDOLE (verb)
  The verb CONDOLE has 1 sense:

1. express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death

  Familiarity information: CONDOLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDOLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they condole    ... he / she / it condoles   
Past simple: condoled   
Past participle: condoled   
-ing form: condoling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

You must condole the widow

Hypernyms (to "condole" is one way to...):

commiserate; sympathise; sympathize (to feel or express sympathy or compassion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

condolence (an expression of sympathy with another's grief)

 Context examples 

She told me we must part, and told me why; and we condoled with one another, in all sincerity.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Kindly, as usual—and, as usual, rather trite—she condoled with him on the pressure of business he had had all day; on the annoyance it must have been to him with that painful sprain: then she commended his patience and perseverance in going through with it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was as follows: MY DEAR SIR, I feel myself called upon, by our relationship, and my situation in life, to condole with you on the grievous affliction you are now suffering under, of which we were yesterday informed by a letter from Hertfordshire.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

For three or four days I remain at home, a very ill-looking subject, with a green shade over my eyes; and I should be very dull, but that Agnes is a sister to me, and condoles with me, and reads to me, and makes the time light and happy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And Lady Lucas has been very kind; she walked here on Wednesday morning to condole with us, and offered her services, or any of her daughters', if they should be of use to us.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)