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Meaning of SYMPATHIZE

Pronunciation:  'simpu`thIz

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [v]  be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!"
  2. [v]  to feel or express sympathy or compassion
  3. [v]  share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of
 
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 Synonyms: commiserate, empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathise, understand
 
 See Also: compassionate, condole, condole with, experience, feel, feel for, pity, sympathize with

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \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.
                                                   --Buckminster.
    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.              --Addison.
    3. To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize. --Dryden.
    
  2. \Sym"pa*thize\, v. t.
    1. To experience together. [Obs.] ``This sympathized . . .
       error.'' --Shak.
    2. To ansew to; to correspond to. [Obs.] --Shak.
    
 
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