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congratulate

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con⋅grat⋅u⋅late

  [kuhn-grach-uh-leyt or, often, -graj-, kuhng-]
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–verb (used with object), -lat⋅ed, -lat⋅ing.
1. to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
2. Archaic. to express sympathetic joy or satisfaction at (an event).
3. Obsolete. to salute.
Origin:
1540–50; < L congrātulātus, ptp. of congrātulārī. See congratulant, -ate 1

Related forms:
con⋅grat⋅u⋅la⋅tor, noun
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con·grat·u·late   (kən-grāch'ə-lāt', -grāj'-, kəng-)   
tr.v.   con·grat·u·lat·ed, con·grat·u·lat·ing, con·grat·u·lates
To express joy or acknowledgment, as for the achievement or good fortune of (another).

[Latin congrātulārī, congrātulāt- : com-, com- + grātulārī, to rejoice (from grātus, pleasing; see gwerə-2 in Indo-European roots).]
con·grat'u·la'tor n., con·grat'u·la·to'ry (-lə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.
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