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)

  1. (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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