Sympathize

[sym·pa·thize]

When you sympathize, you care about how someone else feels during a time of trouble. If you sympathize with your brother, whose best friend is moving away, you understand why he's feeling sad.

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To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.

Verb
be understanding of; "You don''t need to explain--I understand!"

Verb
to feel or express sympathy or compassion

Verb
share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of


v. i.
To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.

v. i.
To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.

v. i.
To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.

v. t.
To experience together.

v. t.
To ansew to; to correspond to.


Sympathize

Sym"pa*thize , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sympathized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sympathizing .] [F. sympathiser. See Sympathy.] 1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation.
2. To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.
Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures.
3. To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize. Dryden.

Sympathize

Sym"pa*thize, v. t. 1. To experience together. [Obs.] "This sympathized . . . error." Shak. 2. To ansew to; to correspond to. [Obs.] Shak.

To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.

To experience together.

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Usage Examples

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

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Other Usage Examples

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

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