Synonyms:
sympathize, sympathise
Meaning: share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of
Synonyms:
sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise, understand
Meaning: be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!"
Usage examples
“I quite sympathize with your reluctance to deliver it yourself,” she said.
At least," he entreated, "don't quarrel with everybody who may sympathize with her.
But I had no burning desire to eat sour apples without grimacing, and I did not sympathize over and above with my brother.
When lessons were not learned he would sympathize with and comfort us by saying we had done our best and more could not be expected.
And if she ever gets into trouble, she will feel kindly towards us for the sake of our sympathy with her pleasures, and will let us sympathize with her sorrows."
Yet I sympathize with the urgent impulse to be present ourselves, and in the conflict of impulses, both of them so vague yet both of them noble, I know not how to decide.
But worse still: that he may bear down every argument in favor of these poems, he triumphantly drags forward a passage, in his abomination with which he expects the reader to sympathize.
I tried to stifle these sensations; I thought that as I could not sympathize with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to bestow.
If we think of how hard the exclusionists have fought to reject the coming of ordinary-looking dust from this earth's externality, we can sympathize with them in this sensational instance, perhaps.
Naturally, being fond of boxing, I grew to know a good many prize-fighters, and to most of those I knew I grew genuinely attached. I have never been able to sympathize with the outcry against prize-fighters.