Usually means: Feel compassionate sorrow for someone.
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  1. take pity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. take pity: Wiktionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (take pity)

▸ verb:  To show compassion (towards).

Similar:
feel sorry for, pity, mercify, open one's heart, compassionate, feel for, sympathize, commiserate, find it in one's heart, feel someone's pain, more...

Phrases:
take pity on, take pity on someone, more...

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Similar:
feel sorry for, pity, mercify, open one's heart, compassionate, feel for, sympathize, commiserate, find it in one's heart, feel someone's pain, more...

Phrases:
take pity on, take pity on someone, more...



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