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English Dictionary: sympathize	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for sympathize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sympathize v share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of [syn: sympathize, sympathise] be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!" Synonym(s): sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise, understand to feel or express sympathy or compassion Synonym(s): commiserate, sympathize, sympathise
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sympathize \Sym"pa*thize\, v. t. 1. To experience together. [Obs.] [bd]This sympathized . . . error.[b8] --Shak. 2. To ansew to; to correspond to. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sympathize \Sym"pathize\, 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.