Verb
take pity (third-person singular simple present takes pity, present participle taking pity, simple past took pity, past participle taken pity)
To show compassion (towards).
Someone please take pity on that homeless man in the rain and give him a place to stay overnight.
Victims take pity on victims. Antonio Porchia
I myself have experienced the volcanic existential depths of the Greek language. It was during a performance of Medea by Tzeni Karezi at the Herod Atticus theatre in Athens,when she was pleading to the callous Jason to take pity on her and she used the word ' splachniasou.' Angelique Rockas