FEEL FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feel for mean? 

• FEEL FOR (verb)
  The verb FEEL FOR has 1 sense:

1. share the suffering of

  Familiarity information: FEEL FOR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEEL FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Share the suffering of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

compassionate; condole with; feel for; pity; sympathize with

Hypernyms (to "feel for" is one way to...):

grieve; sorrow (feel grief)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "feel for"):

commiserate; sympathise; sympathize (to feel or express sympathy or compassion)

care (feel concern or interest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot feel for Sue

 Context examples 

I know you never do, my dear; and you will always find your reward in the affection it makes everybody feel for you.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You know how I always feel for the horses.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was persuaded that any tolerably pleasing young woman who had listened and seemed to feel for him would have received the same compliment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

There is no alloy of self in what I feel for you.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I also am unfortunate; I and my family have been condemned, although innocent; judge, therefore, if I do not feel for your misfortunes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Womble stirred uneasily, feeling for the other the hatred one is prone to feel for one he has wronged.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

We must all feel for him; and the more so, because it is totally out of our power to assist him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If we feel for the wretched, enough to do all we can for them, the rest is empty sympathy, only distressing to ourselves.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He spoke enthusiastically, with the love for a fine craft such as some men feel for horses.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For, he said to himself, if it is the head, I am sure I shall not be given a heart, since a head has no heart of its own and therefore cannot feel for me.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)