offer one's condolences
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offer one's condolences (third-person singular simple present offers one's condolences, present participle offering one's condolences, simple past and past participle offered one's condolences)
- (idiomatic) To offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one.
- The president offered his condolences to the mother of the dead soldier.
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offer sympathy to someone who has recently experienced the loss of a loved one
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