Definitions
be understanding of
Word origin
Borrowed from French sympathiser. By surface analysis, sympathy + -ize. Displaced native Old English efnþrōwian (literally “to suffer with or together”).
Used in a sentence
““I can’t quite sympathise with your mother in all her feelings about this marriage, because I do not think that I recognise as she does the necessity of money.””
“The wives were sympathizing with each other in slightly raised voices.”
“‘[…] 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. […]’”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Feel for”10 letters
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