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/sˈɪmpəθˌaɪz/ Listen

verb

Sympathize v. t.

To experience together. (Obs.) "This sympathized... error."

To ansew to; to correspond to. (Obs.)

Sympathize v. i. (past & past part. sympathized; pres. part. sympathizing)

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."

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."

To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.

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... the general progress of a war which has been marked with cruelty and rapine; while we survey the ruins of this once flourishing city and its vicinity; while we sympathize in the calamities which have reduced so many of our virtuous fellow-citizens to want and distress, and are anxiously solicitous for means to repair the wastes and misfortunes which we lament," we cannot ...

— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis

... hot shot are said to have struck this church and set it on fire more than fifty times: quite good shooting but bad manners. No wonder, then, that this Church of the Virgin and St. Charles has lost its pristine beauty; yet it has an attraction of its own to those who sympathize with its misfortunes, and there are still some quaint old corners of the Hermitage attached to the edifice, built by Dienzenhofer, for ...

— From a Terrace in Prague • Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

... arrived with the fatal summons. About two o'clock the king proceeded through the long gallery, lined on each side with soldiers, who, far from insulting the fallen monarch, appeared by their sorrowful looks to sympathize with his fate. At the end an aperture had been made in the wall, through which he stepped at once upon the scaffold. It was hung with black; at the farther end were seen the two executioners, the block, and ...

— The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans - to the Accession of King George the Fifth - Volume 8 • John Lingard and Hilaire Belloc

... that lead pipe is being used and the only successful way of joining is with the wiped joint. Some plumbers' helpers of today seem to think that joint wiping is of no account. To a certain extent, I can sympathize with them. Most of these boys are learning a trade in large cities and working for concerns that do nothing but a large contracting business. This large work is carried on differently from the small work. Wrought-iron or steel pipes are used to a great extent in this work and ...

— Elements of Plumbing • Samuel Dibble

... soothed. She could not sympathize with the tropical nature, that smiled like sunshine at one moment, and the next burst into the fury of a tornado. She pushed off the beseeching hand, turned from the offered endearments, and, with reddened, tear-stained ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various

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