SYMPATHIZE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary If you sympathize with someone who is in a bad situation, you show that you are sorry for them I must tell you how much I sympathize with you for your loss, Professor [VERB + with] He would sympathize but he wouldn't understand [VERB] If you sympathize with someone's feelings, you understand them and are not critical of them
sympathize, v. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . . Among the hidden secrets of nature, that of sympathizing is one of the truest The Earth trembled and the Rocks rent; the most insensible Creatures sympathiz'd with him The stomach sympathizes with this state of the kidneys, for it is affected with sickness and vomiting