SYMPATHIZE WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sympathize with mean? 

• SYMPATHIZE WITH (verb)
  The verb SYMPATHIZE WITH has 1 sense:

1. share the suffering of

  Familiarity information: SYMPATHIZE WITH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYMPATHIZE WITH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Share the suffering of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms (to "sympathize with" is one way to...):

grieve; sorrow (feel grief)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sympathize with"):

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

care (feel concern or interest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot sympathize with Sue

 Context examples 

Yes, yes, Troubridge, I can understand and sympathize with your feelings.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Any girl reader who has suffered like afflictions will sympathize with poor Amy and wish her well through her task.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At length I begged him, with all the earnestness I felt, to tell me what had occurred to cross him so unusually, and to let me sympathize with him, if I could not hope to advise him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Some old people keep young at heart in spite of wrinkles and gray hairs, can sympathize with children's little cares and joys, make them feel at home, and can hide wise lessons under pleasant plays, giving and receiving friendship in the sweetest way.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I see so many going to ruin for want of help at the right minute, I love so to do anything for them, I seem to feel their wants, and sympathize with their troubles, and oh, I should so like to be a mother to them!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)