sympathize
IPA: sˈɪmpʌθaɪz
verb
- (intransitive) To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.
- (intransitive) To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).
- (transitive) To say in an expression of sympathy.
- (intransitive) To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
- (transitive, obsolete) To share (a feeling or experience).
- (intransitive) To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.
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Examples of "sympathize" in Sentences
- I sympathize with the nominator.
- The public sympathized with her sadness.
- Every mother can sympathize with the pang.
- The people openly sympathized with the Jews.
- I sympathize with the frustration of the situation.
- It takes a native to sympathize, which is why I go.
- Postal workers sympathize in aftermath of tragic loss.
- He sympathizes with all the misery and the misery of others.
- But in substance, I have to sympathize with this bilious fellow.
- In this world, to understand and to sympathize is to be saddened.
- I can sympathize with the characterization of the articles as Eurocentric.
- The judges were not there to 'sympathize' they were they to interpret the LAW.
- You know, don't torch me on this one, but I kind of sympathize with the baker.
- I can sympathize with him but I can sympathize with every other quarterback in the league also.
- Here Will is supposed to be the everyman, the character with whom we should sympathize, which is quite a bit to rest on his slim, bookish shoulders.
- Outgoing National Police Commissioner Frank Short, a salty Australian expat, has publicly rebuked Rabuka for appearing to "sympathize" with the rebels.
- His character just _will_ not shut up through the entire course of the movie, but you kind of sympathize with the motormouth response to everything going on around him.
- Demons, hearing this word, thought it meant dayadhvam, meaning "sympathize" or "be compassionate"; in the Oriental context demons were not evil spirits but deities of the old matriarchal religion, who preached karuna, mother-love.
- It says it can "sympathize" with the attempt to "decimate" Hamas and "wrest Gaza from its grip," despite much expert commentary that this would do more harm than good in the long run (especially since Hamas did win a democratic election).