Definition of Sympathize

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Sympathize

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

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.

To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.

To experience together.

To ansew to; to correspond to.

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Sympathize Quotations

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
Mike Tyson

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Hideki Tojo

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
Edward W. Howe

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
Leon Kass

That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.
Daniel Okrent

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.
Hunter Tylo

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
Neville Chamberlain

Sympathize Translations

sympathize in Dutch is meevoelen
sympathize in French is compatissez, compatis, compatissent, compatissons
sympathize in German is sympathisieren
sympathize in Spanish is simpatizar
sympathize in Swedish is sympatisera

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