Definitions
be understanding of
Word origin
Borrowed from French sympathiser. By surface analysis, sympathy + -ise.
Used in a sentence
“‘[…] who is to hunt up my witnesses? All of them are sailors, drafted off to other ships, except those whose evidence would go for very little, as they took part, or sympathised in the affair. […]’”
“Dahl insisted there was no racist intent behind the Oompa Loompas but also said he found himself sympathising with the NAACP.”
“Brown heavily sympathises with the challenges now being faced by his successor Andy Byford and Mayor Sadiq Khan, to secure a more sustainable funding formula for TfL that is less reliant on farebox income.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Feel pity”10 letters
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