Sympathize
['sɪmpə'θaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) be understanding of; 'You don't need to explain--I understand!'.
(verb.) share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of.
Checked by Emma--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Examples
- I've been through it all, and I can sympathize. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- One day I mentioned to him the desire I had always felt of finding a friend who might sympathize with me, and direct me by his counsel. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me; whose eyes would reply to mine. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I only wish you were Mr. Helstone instead of Mr. Sympson; you would sympathize with me better. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathize with and love me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We commonly consider ourselves as we appear in the eyes of others, and sympathize with the advantageous sentiments they entertain with regard to us. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I can sympathize with the objects. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And say, mothers of America, is this a thing to be defended, sympathized with, passed over in silence? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I sympathized with, and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none, and related to none. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I sympathized with him, and we became close companions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His district had been settled originally by people from the Southern States, and at the breaking out of secession they sympathized with the South. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I do not believe there was a man on board who sympathized with me in the least when they found me uninjured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Selden had always liked her--had understood and sympathized with the modest independence of her life. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- May I speak quite freely, and will you remember that it's Mother who blames as well as Mother who sympathizes? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Your uncle sympathizes with us? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Go on, dear, patiently and bravely, and always believe that no one sympathizes more tenderly with you than your loving. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Every true craftsman, artist or professional man knows and sympathizes with that impulse: you may call it a desire for self-direction in labor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Cheer up, or I shall make you over to Idris, and call Adrian into the carriage, who, I see by his gesture, sympathizes with my good spirits. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Sympathizing was the word on Caroline's lips, but it was not uttered. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It seemed wonderful how he could turn from such a man without a conciliatory or a sympathizing expression. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I don't want anything to do with your affairs,--in fact, she looked about as sympathizing as a stone lion. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So I do, as far as sympathizing goes, but I think the fault is yours, Meg. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Every caress was received with loud acclamations of laughter by the sympathizing audience. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The lines of her face were hard and rude, like that of persons accustomed to see without sympathizing in sights of misery. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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