Word Finder - sympathize

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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.

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To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).

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To say in an expression of sympathy.

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

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To share (a feeling or experience).

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To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.

Look, I can sympathize with you, but there's nothing I can do, at least not yet.

I fully sympathize with your son Luke's problems.

If I could not empathize, at least I could sympathize.

We also sympathize deeply with the families of all victims of war.

He could sympathize with Cynthia, who'd complained about the overload of problems jumping from every corner.

Stone's film does not sympathize with or glorify the SLA.

I fully sympathize with your son Luke 's problems.

I like it a lot here, although I can totally sympathize with you regarding the lack of facilities and infrastructure.

Which brings them closer to each other than to the rich of their respective countries who at best can only sympathize with them.

As Henderson was forced upon his parish by Archbishop George Gladstanes, and was known to sympathize with episcopacy, his settlement was at first extremely unpopular; but he subsequently changed his views and became a Presbyterian in doctrine and 'church government, and one of the most esteemed ministers in Scotland.

It was deemed only natural that he should sympathize deeply with the disasters of the northern kingdom.

I automatically sympathize with those who feel this is all quite counterintuitive.

At the same time, one can sympathize with the lay public and bereaved relatives, in confusing these activities with freak shows.

France, he believed, would never come single-handed to the assistance of Turkey; Austria would be bound at least to benevolent neutrality by " gratitude " for the aid given in 1849; the king of Prussia would sympathize with a Christian crusade; Great Britain, where under the influence of John Bright and Richard Cobden the " peace at any price " spirit seemed to be in the ascendant, would never intervene.

When the Lutheran movement began they were ready to sympathize with it, and ultimately to adapt their old 2 Preger, Beitrage zur Geschichte der Waldenser.

Her first venture greats galore were can sympathize with anyone can remember.

Stone 's film does not sympathize with or glorify the SLA.

This translates into the ability empathize and sympathize when things don't go as planned.

Today, Eminem takes his painful childhood experiences and turns them into music for the millions of disaffected youth who sympathize with his tales of the white lower-class experience.

It is reassuring for teens to turn for advice to friends who understand and sympathize with them.

A parent's willingness to listen to and sympathize with a child's fears provides a necessary validation of the child's experience and helps to calm the child's anxiety.

Individuals who suffer from severe peanut allergies can sympathize with celiacs regarding the necessity of reading ingredient labels.

Kipling designs sympathize with your love of miscellany, hence many styles come happily equipped with expandable zippered pockets.

Still, when the loss means Bruce Willis may have to buy a Bentley instead of a Rolls Royce next year, it's hard for the kid who works at Taco Bell to really sympathize.

Whilst one can sympathize with the victim in this story, it is difficult not to be somewhat amused by events.

I also have the bird flu at the moment so i sympathize and hope your ears pop.

Of consequence, there are few that know how to sympathize with them that are under this sore temptation.

But ultimately by buying into that genre, it dodges the hard task of encouraging us to sympathize with a basically repugnant character.

On the basis of this Comrade Foster arrives at the singular conclusion that I sympathize with the minority group.

I sympathize with the plight of farmers today, who see their livelihoods threatened by consumers refusing to buy such hybrids.

I sympathize with these feelings, but the Anthropic Principle seems essential in quantum cosmology.

Upper class toffs, the lot of them but I'll always sympathize with Roger Waters for how they treated him.

Of course, we sympathize with others, but life continues on.

Even those who do not sympathize with the cause which Athanasius steadfastly defended cannot but admire his magnanimous and heroic character.

Marcellus, therefore, struck his first blow at Leontini, which was quickly stormed; and the tale of the horrors of the sack was at once carried to Syracuse and roused; the anger of its population, who could not but sympathize with their near neighbours, Greeks like themselves.

It was as if Prince Andrew would have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not.

His Whig connexions combined with his transatlantic experiences to predispose Lord Edward to sympathize with the doctrines of the French Revolution, which he embraced with ardour when he visited Paris in October 1792.

At the time of his appointment the attitude of the Russian government towards the Slav nationalities had been for several years one of extreme reserve, and he had seemed as ambassador to sympathize with this attitude.

He had become its leader as a conciliator of the various sections, and it was as a conciliator, ready to sympathize with the strong views of all sections of his following, that he kept the party together, while his colleagues went their own ways in their own departments.

As there proved to be a large number in the town councils who did not sympathize with the plans of organization recommended by Calvin and his colleagues, the town preachers were, after a year and a half of unsatisfactory labour, forced to leave Geneva.

On the 8th of February 1871 he was elected a member of the National Assembly, in which he maintained that the republic was "the necessary form of national sovereignty," and voted for the continuation of the war; yet, though a member of the extreme Left, he was too clear-minded to sympathize with the Commune, and exerted his influence in vain on the side of moderation.

Yet the shrewd common-sense, the biting humour, the power of graphic description and the imaginative " mysticism " give them a unique attraction for many even who do not fully sympathize with the implied philosophy or with the Puritanical code of ethics.

The summers of 1788 and 1789 he spent in France, where he met Suard, Degerando, Raynal, and learned to sympathize with the revolutionary movement.

He believed that the royal difficulties would be removed if a policy were adopted with which the people could heartily sympathize, and if the king placed himself at the head of his parliament and led them on.

His prose style, especially in his Catholic days, is fresh and vigorous, and is attractive to many who do not sympathize with his conclusions, from the apparent candour with which difficulties are admitted and grappled with, while in his private correspondence there is a charm that places it at the head of that branch of English literature.

With her diminished resources Athens could not indeed hope to cope with the great Macedonian king; however much we may sympathize with the generous ambition of the patriots, we must admit that in the light of hard facts their conduct appears quixotic.

His affection for the memory of his mother and dissatisfaction with his own innovation on ancient customs thus blended together; and we can sympathize with his tears.

They sympathize with the Maronites against the Orthodox Eastern, and, like both, are of Syrian race, and Arab speech.

When the effort to restrain feeling is exhibited in a degree which surprises as well as pleases, it excites admiration as a virtue or excellence; such excellences Adam Smith quaintly calls the " awful and respectable," contrasting them with the " amiable virtues " which consist in the opposite effort to sympathize, when exhibited in a remarkable degree.

Flint's Pond, a mile eastward, allowing for the disturbance occasioned by its inlets and outlets, and the smaller intermediate ponds also, sympathize with Walden, and recently attained their greatest height at the same time with the latter.