to express sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief (usually fol. by with): to condole with a friend whose father has died.
–verb (used with object)
2.
Obsolete. to grieve with.
Origin: 1580–90; < LL condolēre, equiv. to con-con-+ dolēre to feel pain; akin to dolor
con·dole (kən-dōl') intr.v.
con·doled, con·dol·ing, con·doles To express sympathy or sorrow: I condoled with him in his loss.
[Late Latin condolēre, to feel another's pain : Latin com-, com- + Latin dolēre, to grieve.] con·do'la·to'ry (-dō'lə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj., con·dol'er n.