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сочу́вствовать — meaning in English

sochuvstvovat

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English meaning

  • commiserate adj Commiserating, pitying, lamentful.
  • compassionate adj Showing genuine concern and kindness toward someone who is suffering.
  • condole verb Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.
  • empathize verb To understand and share the feelings of another person.
  • feel verb To become aware of something through the sense of touch.
  • sympathize verb To feel or express understanding and care for someone else's suffering or situation.

Senses

сочу́вствовать is used for these senses in English:

  • commiserate (transitive) To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).
  • compassionate (transitive, archaic) To feel compassion (for someone or with regard to something); to regard (someone or something) with compassion.
  • condole Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.
  • empathize (intransitive) to feel empathy for another person
  • feel (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
  • feel for (idiomatic) To experience sympathy for, to sympathise with.
  • sympathize (intransitive) To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected

compassionate — full definition

  1. adj Showing genuine concern and kindness toward someone who is suffering.
  2. adj Granted as an exception because of a family emergency, illness, or bereavement.

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