- 1. v. i. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. Source: opted
- 2. v. i. To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected. Source: opted
- 3. v. i. To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize. Source: opted
- 4. v. t. To experience together. Source: opted
- 5. v. t. To ansew to; to correspond to. Source: opted
- 6. v. share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of Source: wordnet
- 7. v. be understanding of Source: wordnet
- 8. v. to feel or express sympathy or compassion Source: wordnet
- 9. 1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster. 2. To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected. Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures. Addison. 3. To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize. Dryden. 1. To experience together. [Obs.] "This sympathized . . . error." Shak. 2. To ansew to; to correspond to. [Obs.] Shak. Source: webster
- 10. v:100 v. share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of v. be understanding of Source: ecdict
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