extend\ one's\ sympathy\ to

extend\ one's\ sympathy\ to
v. phr.
To offer one's condolences on the occasion of a death or similarly tragic event.

All of Tom's colleagues extended their sympathy to him when his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident.


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