[
US
/ˈsɪmpəˌθaɪz/
]
VERB
- share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of
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be understanding of
You don't need to explain--I understand! - to feel or express sympathy or compassion
How To Use sympathize In A Sentence
- Burke's execution was witnessed by the novelist Sir Walter Scott, who sympathized with the general opinion that both men's wives had served as accomplices, and that the anatomists had been accessories to the murders.
- Sternbane was the only member of the public who spoke on the proposal, but supervisors sympathized with nonsmokers, who sometimes have to share the confined spaces with people who pass the time by smoking. Fairfax County bans smoking in bus shelters
- It is hard not to sympathize with her dilemma.
- I have already arranged with a sympathizer there to use his video recorder to check the authenticity of Kinnard's tape. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
- Does it propose to welcome these new adherents or sympathizers by yelling in the tones of that great bigmouth?
- My purpose is to show that poverty and misfortune make no invidious distinctions of “race, color, or previous condition,” but that wealth unduly centralized oppresses all alike; therefore, that the labor elements of the whole United States should sympathize with the same elements in the South, and in some favorable contingency effect some unity of organization and action, which shall subserve the common interest of the common class. Black and White
- Though words cannot express the thoughts the heart would like to say, still may you know that others care and sympathize today.
- The initial bone of contention was the question of the terms on which sympathizers should be admitted to the Party.
- And to be clear, the “good fight” is, instead of accusing flag wavers of being neo-Confederate Klan sympathizers, to convince people of good will that embracing offensive and divisive symbols is counter-productive and hurtful. Matthew Yglesias » Pro-Slavery
- He was a Communist - not a sympathizer or fellow traveler, but a card-carrying meeting-attender.