sympathize

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: sym=pa=thize

CIDE DICTIONARY

sympathize, v. i. [F. sympathiser. See Sympathy.].

•  To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.  [1913 Webster]

  "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."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures."  [1913 Webster]
•  To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

sympathize, v. t. 

•  To experience together.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  To ansew to; to correspond to.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sympathize, v.intr. (also -ise) (often foll. by with)
1 feel or express sympathy; share a feeling or opinion.
2 agree with a sentiment or opinion.

Derivative

sympathizer n.

Etymology

F sympathiser (as SYMPATHY)

ROGET THESAURUS

sympathize

Pity

VB pity, have pity, show pity, take pity, commiserate, compassionate, condole, sympathize, feel for, be sorry for, yearn for, weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of, forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis, give a coup de gr=ace, put out of one's misery, raise pity, excite pity, touch, soften, melt, melt the heart, propitiate, disarm, ask for mercy, supplicate, cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel, deprecate.