take pity

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Verb[edit]

take pity (third-person singular simple present takes pity, present participle taking pity, simple past took pity, past participle taken pity)

  1. To show compassion (towards).
    Someone please take pity on that homeless man in the rain and give him a place to stay overnight.

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