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Another word for sympathize

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Verb

  1. To experience or express compassion

    Idioms:
    See also:

    pity

  2. To understand or be sensitive to another's feelings or ideas

    See also:

    understand

  3. To associate or affiliate oneself closely with a person or group

    See also:

    same

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Another word for sympathize

Verb
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Sentence Examples

  • Look, I can sympathize with you, but there's nothing I can do, at least not yet.

  • She thought: "If I seem not to notice he will think that I do not sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will say (as he has done before) that I'm in the dumps."

  • "My dear friend?" said she, in a tone of pathetic inquiry, prepared to sympathize in any way.

  • It was as if Prince Andrew would have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not.

  • Palmerston sympathized, or was supposed to sympathize, openly with the revolutionary party abroad.

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